Neutron stars are already considered some of the most peculiar objects in the universe, but now the Hubble Space telescope has found one that is even more odd: it's giving off a bizarre swirling ...

Neutron stars, the end-stage remnants of massive stars, are high-energy objects. They’re usually studied in X-rays, some of the most energetic light in the universe. Neutron stars also give off radio ...

Illustrated GIF showing a neutron star with a circum-pulsar disk. If seen at the proper angle the scattered emission from the inner part of the disk could produce the extended infrared emission ...

Astronomers have noticed something unusual around a nearby neutron star, known as RX J0806.4-4123. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, a team led by Bettina Posselt from Pennsylvania State University, ...

Somewhere out in space, a pulsar is acting strangely. It's emitting infrared radiation—and nothing else—in a way that's making scientists reconsider what they known about these cosmic phenomena. After ...