In a significant breakthrough, astronomers have recently discovered a “ghost star” nestled within the remnants of a supernova ...

Astronomers have doubled the number of black hole and neutron star mergers detected via gravitational waves in a "stellar ...

A cosmic marvel resembling a giant hand has captured the attention of scientists. This hand-shaped nebula, MSH 15-52, originates from pulsar B1509-58, ...

Binary star systems are not rare. Neither are systems where one star is a remnant like a white dwarf or neutron star, and its companion is on the main sequence. In those systems, the dense remnant can ...

A decade after the first discovery, scientists have used these waves to find a unique merger, a massive binary system and a ...

Science advances through data that don't fit our current understanding. At least that was Thomas Kuhn's theory in his famous ...

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary celestial system containing a runaway pulsar fleeing the scene of a massive ...

A bright flash of radio waves from 3 billion years after the big bang is illuminating parts of the universe that astronomers can’t normally see ...

Astronomers have taken a fresh look at the famous “Hand of God” pulsar, combining X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra Observatory with new radio observations from the Australia Telescope Compact Array. At ...

Explore the limits of approaching a neutron star. See how its extreme gravity and radiation make getting close impossible.

James Webb Telescope Discovers Strange Planet with Carbon Atmosphere Surrounding a Pulsar!

An international research team has significantly advanced gravitational-wave astronomy by detecting 128 new cosmic collisions involving black holes and neutron stars.