Understanding the origin of heavy elements on the periodic table is one of the most challenging open problems in all of ...

Pulsars are the remnants of giant stars that exploded in a supernova. Check out these 7 breathtaking images of pulsars ...

Neutron star mergers are collisions between neutron stars, the collapsed cores of what were once massive supergiant stars. These mergers are known to generate gravitational waves, energy-carrying ...

Researchers delved into the curious case of SXP 138, a pulsar in a binary star system whose cosmic clock is not ticking as ...

Astronomers have described the first measurements of plasma layers within an interstellar shock wave that surrounds a pulsar.

The interstellar plasma is turbulent and scatters pulsar radio waves slightly away from a direct, straight line path. The ...

Our observations honed in on the nearby fast-spinning pulsar, J0437-4715, which is 512 light-years away from Earth. A pulsar is a neutron star, a super-dense stellar remnant that produces beams of ...

The scintillation arcs also gave us the velocities of the plasma layers. Far from being as expected, we discovered that one ...