A neutron star's final moments may spark violent starquakes, monster shock waves, and even a fleeting, never-before-seen object called a black hole pulsar.

Though Vela is a pretty "normal" pulsar with rotations occurring 11 times per second, the researcher explains it's a key subject in astronomy because it's quite close to us — cosmically speaking ...

The Vela pulsar is one of the best-studied spinning ... journalist in the U.K. who specializes in science, space, physics, astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, quantum mechanics and technology.

The future of yellow dwarf stars, like our sun, is determined almost entirely by their mass. The most massive stars, about ...

A pulsar is a neutron star that astronomers detect ... “The sweet thing about astronomy, for me, is what’s out there waiting for us to find,” Heywood says.

Researchers published details on the pulsar today in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. Pulsars are the dead remnants of massive stars that exploded in a supernova. Though they produce no ...

Researchers published their findings in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Astronomy. Cromartie said she hopes to continue to observe the pulsar with other powerful telescopes to help refine its ...

In 1967 Jocelyn Bell Burnell made a discovery that revolutionized the field of astronomy. She detected the radio signals emitted by certain dying stars called pulsars. This encore episode ...

Their effort has been all the more remarkable because they have never actually seen a pulsar; all of their clues come from radio signals picked up by giant radio telescopes. Now a new avenue of ...

We’re excited to announce Astronomy magazine’s new Space and ... In this case, the exact fit could be achieved if this pulsar is orbited by two small nearby planets; later refinements added ...

Now, astronomers have published new findings about the pulsar in Astronomy & Astrophysics that they say suggests activity in the accretion disc’s innermost regions—specifically, ejections of ...

Illustration of the three-body system discovered by astronomers at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory: the millisecond pulsar is shown at the left and the white object in the centre is a hot ...