Fifty experts on nuclear physics, particle physics and astrophysics met at CERN from 9 to 13 June to discuss how to use ...

In nuclear physics, "magic numbers" identify specific numbers of protons or neutrons that lead to especially stable nuclei.

A groundbreaking collaboration between Los Alamos scientists and Duke University has resurrected a nearly forgotten 1938 ...

An atom consists of a heavy center, called the nucleus, made of particles called protons and neutrons. An atom has lighter ...

Neutron stars, the collapsed remnants of massive stars, hold the densest matter in the universe. These cosmic objects are ...

Welcome to the most terrifying objects in the cosmos, Magnetars.These aren’t just neutron stars,they're neutron stars with supercharged magnetic power capable of ripping atoms apart and warping space ...

Magic numbers" in nuclear physics identify specific numbers of protons or neutrons that lead to especially stable nuclei.

Neutron stars with surface temperatures millions of degrees cooler than expected rule out a swathe of possible models to describe the physics of such objects.

The collision of two neutron stars around 130 million light-years from Earth, and the unique physics this merger created, may have shed new light on dark matter.

How this is done, what can be learned, why this is such an exciting activity, and how ORION is currently participating will ...

It wasn’t until the 1960s that Zwicky and Baade’s hypothetical neutron stars were finally detected. Radio astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell noticed a strange, regularly pulsed radio wave signal ...

A groundbreaking simulation reveals how neutron star mergers forge black holes, generate gamma-ray bursts, and scatter gold ...