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

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

Fast-forward to today: we’ve gone from one lonely planet to a catalog of thousands. The pace is accelerating. In 2015, NASA’s ...

Věda a současná civilizace. Interaktivní rozhovory se světovými odborníky, ve kterých je prostor pro vaše otázky a komentáře. Moderuje Daniel Stach.

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 ...

Mysteriously powerful cosmic winds around neutron star may be 'game-changer' for understanding monster black holes ...

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

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 ...

An eerie blue hand seems to be reaching out across the universe in a recently released image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray ...

In the vast depths of the universe, a gravitational ballet lasting hundreds of millions of years is unfolding. Two black ...

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 ...