When massive stars detonate as supernovae, they leave often behind a pulsar. These fast rotating stellar corpses have fascinated scientists…
Pulsars are extreme objects. They're what's left over when a massive star collapses on itself and explodes as a supernova.…
Pulsars are so dependable you could set your watch to them, sometimes turning hundreds of times a second with incredible…
Recently astronomers have been able to associate two seemingly unrelated phenomena: an explosive event known as a fast radio burst…
Pulsars are rapidly spinning neutron stars which release blasts of radio waves with atomic clocklike accuracy. The fastest can be…
The BlackHoleCam project, part of the Event Horizon Telescope consortium, will use the powerful EHT array to search for pulsars…
Life's not too good if you're the companion of a black widow. Here on Earth, spiders by that name feast…
Caption: An illustrated view of a black widow pulsar and its stellar companion. The pulsar’s gamma-ray emissions (magenta) strongly heat…
A gamma-ray view of the sky centered on the core of the Milky Way Galaxy. Could strange spinning neutron stars…
Why is there so much antimatter in the Universe? Ordinary matter is far more plentiful than antimatter, but scientists keep…