When massive stars explode as supernovae, they can leave behind neutron stars. Other than black holes, these are the densest ...

They spew large quantities of radio waves and other forms of electromagnetic radiation at regular intervals, making them something called pulsars. Pulsars spin at extreme speeds – sometimes as ...

Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered radio pulsars, one of the most important astronomical discoveries of the 20th ...

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In the past three years, astronomers have discovered a mysterious new type of radio source. We call these long-period ...

A research team led by McGill identifies neutron stars as the likely source of fast radio bursts, one of the universe's most ...

That wobble is due to the influence of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies, like the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), and rapidly rotating neutron stars, or "pulsars." Fascinatingly, pulsars act like ...

Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...

Astronomers discovered a mysterious 2-hour radio pulse from a hidden white dwarf system, revealing a new type of stellar duo ...

A student started a chase for the stars after detecting unusual sound waves in archival data.