In a startling new observation, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a planet with an atmosphere made almost ...

Like anthropologists piecing together the human family tree, astronomers have found that a misfit “skeleton” of a star may link two different kinds of stellar remains. The mysterious object, called ...

These speedy pulsars get their name from having spin periods in the milliseconds, whereas normal neutron stars spin in the seconds range. The amped-up speeds of millisecond pulsars are likely thanks ...

The universe is a strange place. The X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) orbiting observatory recently highlighted ...

Intense gravitational lensing means you’d be able to see much more of a neutron star standing on its surface than you would ...

An unusual infrared emission detected by the Hubble Space Telescope from a nearby neutron star could indicate that the pulsar has features never before seen. The observation, by a team of researchers ...

Neutron stars are some of the most extreme objects in the universe. Formed from the collapsed cores of supergiant stars, they weigh more than our Sun and yet are compressed into a sphere the size of a ...

The Fermi gamma-ray space telescope has discovered around 300 rapidly spinning neutron stars. Each of the newfound objects sweep two beams of radiation across the universe like a cosmic lighthouse.

An artist’s impression of the the NGC 1851E binary system, looking over the shoulder of the dark mystery companion star. Credit: MPIfR; Daniëlle Futselaar (artsource.nl), CC BY Sometimes astronomers ...

An international team of astronomers have found a new and unknown object in the Milky Way that is heavier than the heaviest neutron stars known and yet simultaneously lighter than the lightest black ...

NASA's NICER telescope halts its mission after a key motor fails; engineers attempt to salvage eight years of space science.

Benjamin Stappers receives funding from UKRI. Arunima Dutta and Ewan D. Barr do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this ...