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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many of the objects NASA and other scientific bodies choose to study in space are incredibly old, but that's not the case with Kes 75. Located a mere 19,000 light years from Earth, Kes 75 is a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Main) An illustration of a rapidly spinning neutron star or pulsar (inset) a VLITE 340 MHz image of GLIMPSE-C01A from February 27 ...

Astronomers have uncovered the strange case of a neutron star with the peculiar ability to transform from a radio pulsar into an X-ray pulsar and back again. This star’s capricious behavior appears to ...

An international group of scientists and a massive observing campaign may have uncovered the reason behind a distant pulsar’s flashy behavior. This pulsar, dubbed PSR J1023+0038, has two different ...

The article recounts Jocelyn Bell Burnell's 1967 discovery of highly regular radio signals, initially termed "scruff" and briefly "LGM-1," which led to the identification of pulsars as rapidly ...

Astronomers have added a new species to the neutron star zoo, showcasing the wide diversity among the compact magnetic remains of dead, once-massive stars. While it’s an oddball, some of this newfound ...