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

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 ...

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

JWST found a carbon-atmosphere planet orbiting a pulsar, challenging current models of how planets form. Scientific progress often comes from data that don’t fit our current understanding. This idea, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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"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 ...