Pulsars are a special type of neutron star that pulses (hence the name), and these neutron stars likely form as the end ...

Using the Large Phased Array (LPA) and the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), astronomers from ...

Michigan State University astrophysicists are closing in on one of space science’s biggest mysteries: where the galaxy’s most ...

Pulsars are highly magnetised, rotating neutron stars that emit beams of radiation detectable from Earth, while many pulsars coexist in binary systems with companion stars. In these systems, the ...

Ultimately, we do not understand where glitches come from or exactly what's going on inside pulsars. What do you get when you stare at the same dead star for more than 20 years? Insight into the ...

Discover seven of the universe’s rarest stars, including white dwarf pulsars and red hypergiants. Learn why astronomers consider these stellar gems exceptionally valuable for studying cosmic evolution ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new dusty star-forming galaxy at high redshift. The newfound ...

Like the Sun shining through the clouds in the early morning, a bright star within the star-forming nebula N79 appears to burst forth through a web of cooler gas and dust in this image taken by the ...