The basic structure of a neutron star is generally agreed on. It has a crust about 1 km thick, in which nuclei are arranged in a crystal lattice immersed in a 'sea' of electrons. Near the surface, the ...

This spring, physics has delivered a trifecta of breakthroughs that are reshaping our grasp of the universe: a landmark fusion agreement for stellarators, a new form of quantum matter called a time ...

In December 2024, the ATLAS astronomical survey detected a distant flash of light. It was a supernova, the explosive death of a massive star, located far, far away, roughly a billion light-years away.

In 2020, astronomers studying deep space signals noticed something unusual hidden inside months of telescope data. A mysterious radio source located nearly 500 million light-years away was not ...

, May 8 -- Scientists have proposed a new theory suggesting that the basic laws of the Universe may be closely linked to the existence of life itself.