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A weird object in the sky that blasted pulses of X-rays and radio waves for two minutes out of every 44 could be a dead star, but it's not one that fits with astronomical theories.

A team of researchers have discovered a binary system in which a pulsar orbited inside the outer layers of its companion star ...

At dusk on a late October night in 1408, something mysterious lit up the skies above China. Ming Dynasty astronomers who ...

Which extreme stellar objects could actually support life? In this video, we explore the most bizarre and powerful cosmic bodies—black holes, neutron stars, white dwarfs—and rank them by ...

Astronomers have detected a sub-stellar object that used to be a star, after being consumed by its white dwarf companion. An international team including Dr. Rene Breton, a Marie Curie Fellow at The ...

In an unprecedented discovery, astronomers have identified a strange object in the Milky Way galaxy. This celestial body, about 15,000 light-years away, emits bursts of radio waves and X-rays every 44 ...