An international team has come up with a new explanation for Fast Radio Bursts based on their study of a…
Using the MeerKAT array, an international team of astronomers has detected a new class of radio-emitting neutron star!
A gamma-ray view of the sky centered on the core of the Milky Way Galaxy. Could strange spinning neutron stars…
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An ultra-long period object might be a magnetar, but it could also be a type of object we've never seen.
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The universe has some very extreme places in it - and there are few places more extreme than the surface…
A white dwarf star has been found that's more massive than our Sun, but about the same size as our…
Two neutron stars. One is 50% more massive than the other, yet they are almost exactly the same size. The…
Astronomers study neutron stars using a method made famous by jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald.