Astronomers have uncovered a bizarre star, ASKAP J1832, that pulses radio waves and X-rays every 44 minutes—thousands of times slower than typical pulsars. This rare object also dims dramatically over ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

The team suggests that if there are small mountains on pulsars, China’s FAST (Five- hundred-meter Aperture Spherical ...

The Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) telescope is mounted on the International Space Station (ISS) and its ...

The Knife Edge Galaxy is located some 50 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Draco, according to NASA. NGC 5907's spiral form is oriented edge-on to our planet, granting it a sharp, ...

Scientists have discovered a strange signal coming from deep space, and what’s surprising is that it repeats every 44 minutes like clockwork. The signal comes in short bursts of radio and X-ray waves.

This cluster of tightly bound stars lies more than 8,000 light-years away from Earth and is, like all globular clusters, a densely populated region of tens of thousands of stars.

M28 is a globular cluster located 17,900 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. It was discovered by ...

Imagine a star so dense that a teaspoon of its material would weigh as much as Mount Everest, spinning hundreds of times per ...

Astronomers have discovered the "missing link" connecting the death of sunlike stars to the birth of white dwarf stellar ...