NASA reveals that a particle wind powers pulsar J1023, aligning optical and X-ray polarization, which calls existing models ...

Astronomers have found a neutron star that spins 716 times per second. This changes things for astronomers. What they thought ...

The universe is a strange place. The X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) orbiting observatory recently highlighted this fact, when it was turned on a pulsar to document its powerful cosmic ...

NASA's NICER telescope halts its mission after a key motor fails; engineers attempt to salvage eight years of space science.

Astronomers have discovered that radiation emitted by a rapidly spinning neutron star, or "pulsar," is dominated by the impact of its powerful particle winds — and not by the material it strips from a ...

JWST found a carbon-atmosphere planet orbiting a pulsar, challenging current models of how planets form. Scientific progress ...

NASA has unveiled a breathtaking new image showing what appears to be a massive “cosmic hand” stretching across 150 light-years of space, created by one of the galaxy’s most powerful electromagnetic ...

A new study has returned to a popular Milky Way attraction, formed by a fast-spinning dead star core that scientists say is one of the most powerful electromagnetic generators in the galaxy. At the ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. A pulsar is racing through an exploded star at over 1 million miles per hour. It was created when a massive star ran out of fuel, collapsed and ...

"Transitional millisecond pulsars are cosmic laboratories that help us understand how neutron stars evolve in binary systems." Astronomers have discovered that radiation emitted by a rapidly spinning ...