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On 24 February, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) approved construction of a $48.5 million instrument ...

Magnetars are neutron stars characterized by some of the most powerful magnetic fields in the Universe, as well as their intense X-ray and gamma-ray emissions and outbursts. An international team ...

Should Rocket Lab successfully execute the Neutron rocket launch, now scheduled for the latter half of 2025, and sustain momentum in its space systems division, the present pullback may represent ...

An international team of astrophysicists from China and Australia has for the first time determined how massive neutron stars are when they are born. An international team of astronomers led by ...

Rumors have floated recently that Rocket Lab's much-awaited mid-2025 Neutron rocket launch won't in fact happen in 2025 at all. Rocket Lab's Q4 earnings report, however, may have laid those rumors ...

The new Neutron rocket includes a "hippo" mouth fairing that deploys upper stages by spitting them out from inside. The private space company Rocket Lab is on track to launch the first of its new ...

Rocket Lab USA (NASDAQ:RKLB) traded lower in early action on Friday after reporting Q4 earnings and pushing the Neutron debut launch until the second half of 2025, which was a modest revision from ...

That wobble is due to the influence of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies, like the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), and rapidly rotating neutron stars, or "pulsars." Fascinatingly, pulsars act like ...

Credit: ©Raphaël Raynaud (LMPA/AIM/IRFU/DRF/CEA Saclay) A breakthrough simulation reveals how magnetars form and evolve, solving a key mystery about their magnetic origins. Magnetars are a rare type ...

Like any substance, neutron stars have an equation of state, or more precisely a phase diagram, such as that for water. The properties of a neutron star are determined by quantum chromodynamics ...