Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or so ...

The birth of a new star seen in 1054, bright enough to dazzle humanity and visible for 20 days. An incredible cosmic event ...

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

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

Pulsars, the dense cores of collapsed stars, could potentially have tiny mountains on their surfaces, challenging our current ...

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

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

In a surprising twist that has left space scientists scratching their heads, a long-dead NASA satellite suddenly emitted a ...

On June 13, 2024, astronomers using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) detected an extraordinarily brief flash of radio waves, lasting less than 30 nanoseconds and peaking at ...

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

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.

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 ...