Each pulsar has its own signature pulse rate ... Because it's the most abundant element in the universe, increasing the chances that other intelligent beings would recognize it and know the ...

This will exploit an array consisting of over 100 pulsars, observed with thirteen radio telescopes across the world, and agglomerating more than 10,000 observations for each pulsar, which should allow ...

Dark matter, widely known as the universe's most mysterious stuff, is rarer on Earth than gold — and that's despite the fact that dark matter outweighs "ordinary matter" by a staggering ratio of ...

opening a window into the universe’s intricate workings. The Guitar Nebula gets its name from its glowing, guitar-like shape. It’s sculpted by PSR B2224+65, a pulsar—a rapidly spinning ...

In 1992 astronomers reported the first planet-size masses around a dead star, the pulsar PSR1257+12, which sits 2,000 light-years away. Three years later came news of the first known exoplanet ...