Protons in neutron-rich nuclei have a higher average energy than previously thought, according to a new analysis of electron scattering data that was first collected in 2004. The research appears to ...

The world's first-ever detection of two faraway neutron stars colliding, causing a massive blast that rippled through the fabric of space and time, is judged the scientific breakthrough of 2017.

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. Axions have never been directly ...

Space is an endless void of mysterious unknowns, and one particularly alluring enigma concerns the point at which neutron stars take on too much mass and collapse into black holes as a result.

Exotic hypothetical particles known as axions could be produced inside a nuclear reactor, something The Big Bang Theory’s ...

Neutron stars explained through stellar remnants and collapsed stars, revealing extreme density, gravity, magnetism, and ...

Astrophysicists have found evidence of a strange substance called quark matter at the heart of compact stars. Combining recent theoretical calculations with measurements of gravitational waves from ...

Fundamental questions that particle physicists have pondered for decades might be answered when a $9.2 million neutron physics beam line is built at the Department of Energy’s Spallation Neutron ...

Parity violation in neutron physics represents a subtle but fundamentally important deviation from mirror symmetry in nuclear interactions. This phenomenon arises from the interplay between the weak ...

So what are ultracold neutrons? Peter Geltenbort: The “thermal neutrons” produced by a research reactor such as ILL have energies of a few hundredths of an electron volt. On average they travel at ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A strange quantum phenomenon predicted more than 80 years ago finally may have been observed in ...