Rocket Lab has signed a contract to launch its new Neutron rocket on a test flight that will advance the U.S. Air Force's point-to-point cargo transportation concept.

Neutron stars are ultra-dense star remnants made up primarily of nucleons (i.e., protons and neutrons). Over the course of millions of years, these stars progressively cool down, radiating heat into space.

This study shows that the universe itself can push the boundaries of physics in ways laboratory tests cannot. By ruling out strong versions of a fifth force, the results help narrow down which new particles are still possible and which theories have to be modified.

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 millimeters tall. And those surfaces are already alien ...

A new paper published in Nature Communications could put scientists on the path to understanding one of the wildest, hottest, and most densely packed places in the universe: a neutron star.

In the same decade when gravitational waves and a neutron star merger have been observed, astronomers have now observed what they believe to be the first detection of a black hole swallowing a neutron star. Last Wednesday, gravitational wave detectors in ...

In my view, in the earnings call and results presentation, Rocket Lab shared two updates about Neutron development (both of them positive) that are critical for investors to note. First, Rocket Lab reported that the Archimedes engine, which is to power the ...

Neutron stars, when they merge, should create an electromagnetic counterpart if they don't create a black hole right away, as light and particles will be expelled due to internal reactions in the interior of these objects. However, if a black hole forms ...

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