Using ESA’s X-ray space observatory XMM-Newton, astronomers have spotted for the first time an enigmatic cloud of high-energy particles called a wind...
A team of astronomers from Chile, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, has found a new, highly accurate way to measure the mass of young pulsars.
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Neutron stars may rival black holes in their ability to accelerate powerful jets of material to nearly the speed of light, says a group of scientists from...
X-rays from NASA’s Chandra Observatory reveal that a fast-moving pulsar in orbit around a massive star punched a hole in a circumstellar disk of material...
Astronomers using the 100-meter Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope have discovered an exotic pulsar that has the widest orbit of any around a neutron...
A team of astrophysicists headed by Dr Joeri van Leeuwen of the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy and the University of Amsterdam has successfully...
A team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile and the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) in New South...
An international team of astronomers, led Dr Matteo Bachetti of the University of Toulouse in France, has detected what they say is the most powerful pulsar...
A newly discovered white dwarf, which is a companion to the nearby pulsar PSR J2222-0137, is so cool that its carbon has crystallized, forming a giant...
According to astronomers led by Mr Paul Brook, a PhD student from the University of Oxford and CSIRO, a small pulsar dubbed PSR J0738-4042 is being pounded...
Astronomers have discovered a unique stellar system of the superdense pulsar PSR J0337+1715 and two white dwarfs, all packed within a space smaller than...
A team of scientists from UK and Germany used a 42-ft telescope at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, England, to determine how the magnetic field...
A team of astronomers led by Dr Alessandro Papitto from the Institute of Space Studies of Barcelona has discovered a fast-spinning pulsar that switches...
An international team of astronomers has used observations of the newly discovered pulsar PSR J1745-2900 to measure the magnetic field emanating from a...
An international team of astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has discovered and studied a strange stellar pair about 7,000 light-years...
