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

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

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

Using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomers from West Virginia University and elsewhere have observed two distant pulsars identified with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio ...

Long before rockets and satellites reached space, the Crab Nebula stood out as a steady beacon of high-energy light. At its ...

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 ...

A researcher identified gamma ray emissions that appear to have originated from dark matter, but other physicists still ...

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

What was once the leading explanation for dark matter may have simply been underestimating the mass of the particles that ...

Scientists have detected an unusual gamma-ray halo around our Milky Way galaxy. This signal, observed by NASA's Fermi ...

The mysterious glow can’t easily be explained, leading a University of Tokyo researcher to argue it could be humanity’s first ...

Physicists tested light speed using cosmic gamma-ray bursts. Study confirms Einstein's prediction that all light colors travel at same speed.