Imagine a star so dense that a teaspoon of its material would weigh as much as Mount Everest, spinning hundreds of times per second while beaming radio waves across the universe. These are pulsars, ...

Scientists may have detected evidence of dark matter lurking in the shadows of the universe using the help of incredibly fast-spinning neutron stars, according to new research. These objects, called ...

Pulsars suggest that ultra–low-frequency gravitational waves are rippling through the cosmos. The signal seen by international pulsar timing array collaborations in 2023 could come from a stochastic ...

Even Superman would have trouble picking up a chunk of a neutron star. Just a sugar cube-sized piece of this extremely dense material — the remnants of a collapsed star — weighs 1 billion tons. That's ...

An extremely slow pulsar has made scientists “slow down” their assumptions about other pulsars. The pace could be caused by a flashing magnetic field rather than pulsar rotation alone. Pulsars and ...

Astronomers from Nanjing University in China have analyzed the archival data from the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), searching for new pulsars. As a result, they ...

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

Using the MeerKAT telescope, an international team of astronomers have detected 30 new radio transient pulsars as part of the Meer(more) TRAnsients and Pulsars (MeerTRAP) project. The discovery was ...

Hiding within the huge catalog of newly found pulsars are several "spider pulsars," or neutron stars that devour their companion stars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

In the Crab Nebula, a rapidly rotating neutron star, or pulsar (white dot near the center), powers the dramatic activity seen by Chandra. The inner X-ray ring is thought to be a shock wave that marks ...