A two-faced star just helped weigh an extra-massive pulsar. The star takes about four hours to orbit its companion, a fast-spinning stellar corpse called a pulsar that’s about 10,000 light-years from ...

Pulsars are some of the most reliable metronomes in the universe, and scientists are now using their flickering radio beams ...

For 10 months, a SETI Institute-led team watched pulsar PSR J0332+5434 (also called B0329+54) to study how its radio signal ...

Allen Telescope Array campaign shows slow changes in radio scintillation that can nudge pulsar timing by billionths of a ...

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A composite image of the Kes 75 pulsar, the youngest such object identified to date in the Milky Way. High-energy X-rays are shown in light blue; low-energy ones are shown in purple. More than 2 ...

Watch out, because this thing eats entire stellar masses: a rapidly rotating collapsed star known as a pulsar is making a meal out of its neighboring star, nearly devouring it whole. That engorging ...

Astronomers have witnessed a never-seen-before event in observations by ESA’s XMM-Newton spacecraft – a collision between a pulsar and a ring of gas around a neighbouring star. The rare passage, which ...

Neutron stars are among the densest objects in the Universe, the result of supernovae explosions. The only thing denser is black holes, and if a neutron star were to acquire enough mass, it is ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A super-dense spinning star punched a hole right through its stellar neighbor, knocking off a ...

Like anthropologists piecing together the human family tree, astronomers have found that a misfit “skeleton” of a star may link two different kinds of stellar remains. The mysterious object, called ...

A perplexing fast-spinning star just might be the "missing link" in a long-standing pulsar mystery, scientists say. The so-called neutron star — a city-sized stellar remnant born from the explosive ...