Alien-hunters are focusing their telescopes on 'pulsar' stars to time their twinkles, giving them a new tool to sift through ...

Tiny delays in pulsar signals measured by SETI scientists could aid the search for gravitational waves and extraterrestrial ...

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 ...

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 ...

Surprised astronomers just discovered a world that blurs the line between planet and stellar remnant, hiding in a system ...

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 ...

Hiding within the huge catalog of newly found pulsars are several "spider pulsars," or neutron stars that devour their companion stars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Neutron stars are so named because in the simplest of models they are made of neutrons. They form when the core of a large star collapses, and the weight of gravity causes atoms to collapse. Electrons ...

Imagine a star so dense that a teaspoon of its material would weigh as much as Mount Everest, spinning hundreds of times per second while beaming radio waves across the universe. These are pulsars, ...

Some stars never really die. Pulsars are the undead magnetized cores of massive stars that have met their end in a supernova. They rotate furiously, spewing jets of electromagnetic radiation from ...