Manuel Linares is a physicist at NTNU who studies binary stars called "spider pulsars." The stars got this name because they ...

Thirty years ago, astronomers didn’t know if planets around other stars were common. Today, NASA says we’ve confirmed 6,000 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration of the pulsar system PSR J1023+0038 showing the central pulsar and an accretion ...

NASA has announced a new milestone in the hunt for planets around other star systems, known as "exoplanets". Humanity has ...

Science advances through data that don't fit our current understanding. At least that was Thomas Kuhn's theory in his famous On the Structure of Scientific Revolutions. So scientists should welcome ...

Two Thai astronomers have helped discover a new black widow pulsar designated PSR J1544–2555, contributing to international ...

This brings us to the complexity of NASA's announcement. "Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, so no single planet is considered the 6,000th ...

By 2015, NASA announced that Kepler had discovered its 1,000th exoplanet. 2016 was a banner year for exoplanet detections with nearly 1,500 in that year alone. The total number reached 5,000 in March ...

An image from NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory shows a glowing hand stretching across the cosmos with its palm and fingers sculpted from the wreckage of a massive stellar explosion.

Millisecond pulsar binaries may produce the excess 511 keV photons seen in the galaxy. These systems could expose hidden pulsars and even exoplanets. Many astrophysicists devote their work to tracing ...