The newfound pulsars have spin periods ranging from 1.88 to 13.03 milliseconds, and dispersion measures between 23.63 and 24.66 pc/cm 3. Twelve of them are binary pulsars, while the remaining three ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An image of ravenous spider pulsars eroding surrounding stars as seen by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Space Telescope. NASA's space-based ...

Astronomers have detected faint radio signals from a neutron star that was thought to be completely silent for decades. Known ...

A strange gamma-ray emission from the center of the Milky Way remains one of astronomy’s most persistent puzzles. New ...

Current gravitational wave observatories have two significant limitations. The first is that they can only observe powerful gravitational bursts such as the mergers of black holes and neutron stars.

For over a decade, a dim but persistent glow near the center of the Milky Way has confused astronomers. This mysterious emission, known as the Galactic Center Excess, glows in high-energy gamma rays ...

Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of "Ask a Spaceman" and "Space Radio," and author of "How t o Die in Space." Astronomers hope to use pulsars ...

Down a seldom traveled side road an hour south of Buenos Aires, two half century old 30-meter single dish radio antennas are pointed upward. Separated by only 120 meters (about the size of a soccer ...

A little bit of “scruff” in scientific data 50 years ago led to the discovery of pulsars — rapidly spinning dense stellar corpses that appear to pulse at Earth. Astronomer Jocelyn Bell made the chance ...

The windy and chaotic remains surrounding recently exploded stars may be launching the fastest particles in the universe. Highly magnetic neutron stars known as pulsars whip up a fast and strong ...