Astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell detected a strange signal from outer space that would lead to the discovery of the radio ...

Using the Large Phased Array (LPA) and the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), astronomers from ...

Michigan State University astrophysicists are closing in on one of space science’s biggest mysteries: where the galaxy’s most ...

A rapidly spinning dead star’s wacky fluctuations in brightness are due to the extreme environment surrounding the object, according to a team of astronomers who observed it. Pulsars are fast-spinning ...

(WHTM) — It was a radio signal that was so strange some people wondered if it came from an alien civilization. On November 28, 1967, astronomy graduate student Jocelyn Bell noticed a regular radio ...

On November 28, 1967, astronomers found the first pulsar. A pulsar is a super-dense star that rotates super fast. As the ...

Astronomers have added a new species to the neutron star zoo, showcasing the wide diversity among the compact magnetic remains of dead, once-massive stars. While it’s an oddball, some of this newfound ...

In the ‘high’ mode, the pulsar gives off bright X-rays, ultraviolet and visible light, while in the ‘low’ mode it’s dimmer at these frequencies and emits more radio waves. The pulsar can stay in each ...

Astronomers have found a radio pulsar with a companion at least 11 times the mass of the Sun — the most massive pulsar companion known. The identity of the companion is uncertain: it may be a massive ...

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have found a pulsar speeding away from its presumed birthplace at nearly 700 miles per second, with its trail ...