An international team of astronomers has concluded that when it comes to theories about colliding neutron stars, Einstein got it right. Everybody else, not so much. A neutron star is what's left when ...

Neutron stars are some of the weirdest cosmic objects, and the greatest mysteries lie deep in their hearts. Neutron stars' surface gravities are so intense that the largest "mountains" are only a few ...

Astronomers witnessed for the first time ever a rare collision of two dense neutron stars. The discovery began with an instrument called LIGO, which won this year’s Nobel Prize for its discovery of ...

Let’s look at a white dwarf first. These stellar remnants are the remains of Sun-like stars and are made mostly of carbon and oxygen. A white dwarf’s outer shell is so hot that it will radiate visible ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. On August 17th, both the light and the gravitational wave signals from ...

When a massive star dies in a supernova, the explosion is only the beginning of the end. Most of the stellar matter is thrown far and wide, but the star’s iron-filled heart remains behind. This core ...

iZotope Neitron 5: What is it? Compared to its mastering suite Ozone and the post-production audio repair tools of RX, Neutron has always looked like the most accessible bundle in iZotope’s plugin ...

In August 2025, Rocket Lab Corporation officially opened Launch Complex 3 at Virginia's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, a major new test, launch, and landing facility for its reusable Neutron rocket, ...

Fourth launch site constructed in under two years will be exclusively used for Rocket Lab’s upcoming medium-lift composite ...

Neutron stars are some of the weirdest cosmic objects, and the greatest mysteries lie deep in their hearts. Neutron stars are the leftover cores of exploded stars and the densest known material in the ...