On November 28, 1967, astronomers found the first pulsar. A pulsar is a super-dense star that rotates super fast. As the ...

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

A mysterious, high-energy glow from gamma-rays in the Milky Way's center is reigniting the debate: dark matter or a hidden ...

With NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, astronomers are getting their best look at those whirling stellar cinders known as pulsars. In two studies, international teams have analyzed gamma rays ...

Pulsars, these neutron stars, might help us unlock the secrets of dark matter. A recent study reveals clues of this elusive substance through the meticulous observation of these radiation-emitting ...

Searches for dark matter aren’t limited to facilities hundreds of feet underground. In the sky, astronomers continually seek observational evidence of the influence of dark matter on galactic scales.

Rochester Institute of Technology and the Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomía (IAR) have collaborated to make the first pulsar observations from South America. A new paper published in Astronomy ...

For over a decade, a dim but persistent glow near the center of the Milky Way has confused astronomers, shining in ...

Black holes are some of the most powerful and perplexing objects in the known universe. They are infinitely dense objects that warp spacetime so much, nothing (not even light itself) can escape their ...

The sky in gamma rays with energies greater than 1 gigaelectronvolts, based on eight years of LAT data. NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration The mysterious excess of high-energy gamma ray emissions coming ...

The spectacularly fast-whirling dead stars known as millisecond pulsars put the brakes on their spinning in large part by blasting pieces of themselves into space, a new model suggests. Pulsars are ...

Pulsars are the lighthouses of the universe. These compact and fast-rotating neutron stars flash many times per second in the radio or gamma-ray band. Pure gamma-ray pulsars are extremely difficult to ...