Physicists, led by Jaspreet Randhawa at Mississippi State University (MSU), have recreated a key nuclear reaction in a laboratory that actually occurs during explosive bursts on neutron stars. Such ...

A Mississippi State University-led team has made the first direct laboratory measurement of a key nuclear reaction occurring during neutron star X-ray bursts, narrowing uncertainties that once spanned ...

Neutron stars harbor some of the most extreme environments in the universe: their densities soar to several times those of atomic nuclei, and they possess some of the strongest gravitational fields of ...