Astronomers studying a rare neutron star system have uncovered a surprising source of powerful X-rays. Using NASA s IXPE telescope and data from other observatories, an international team found that ...

Observations of a pulsar, consisting of a dead star spinning 600 times a second, and feasting on a stellar companion reveal ...

Using the world's most advanced radio telescopes, astronomers have discovered a spinning dead star so rare, strange and ...

Researchers will mine data from NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which will survey the same areas of the sky every ...

The scientists originally assumed that the signal came from a distant object in the cosmos, but further analysis revealed that the long-dead Relay-2 was in fact the culprit behind the mysterious pulse ...

NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has found a trove of 294 gamma-ray-emitting pulsars, with an additional 34 candidates awaiting confirmation.

Many solar system missions have made significant discoveries during such flybys, from the earliest probes of the 1970s to BepiColombo’s recent Mercury flyby and perhaps Europa Clipper’s Mars ...

New images show the rapidly rotating pulsar of the "Guitar Nebula" shooting out a gigantic cosmic plume of plasma, X-rays and supercharged particles spinning along a magnetic field line in ...

NASA released images of a pulsar and pulsar wind that resemble a hand Monday. The observation provided information on the dynamics of a dead star ...

NASA's ISS-mounted X-ray telescope NICER has weighed and measured the closest pulsar to Earth. The neutron star PSR J0437 spins 174 times a second and has a mass of 1.4 suns.

NASA made a first-of-its-kind discovery with its Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, spotting the first gamma-ray eclipses from a special type of star system.