We have been treated to some amazing aurora displays over recent months. The enigmatic lights are caused by charged particles…
In June 2008, the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope began surveying the cosmos to study some of the most energetic…
Ripples in a pond can be captivating on a nice sunny day as can ripples in the very fabric of…
The confirmation of gravitational waves back in 2017 continues to unlock whole new worlds of physics but also continues to…
Some of the most stunningly powerful objects in the sky aren’t necessarily the prettiest to look at. But their secrets…
A team of European researchers observed a pulsar with two orbiting white dwarfs to confirm Einstein's "most fortunate thought."
Using NICER data, two teams of researchers were able to map the surface of a pulsar for the first time…
Recent observations have revealed a pulsar that appears to have been accelerated by the very supernova explosion that created it.
An international team of scientists, relying on data from XMM-Newton, have discovered a slowly-rotating pulsar that is slowly speeding back…
Here's a big mystery in astronomy: fast radio bursts. Brief shrieks of radio waves coming from space. What are they?…