What: Researchers report the possible discovery of a millisecond pulsar near the Galactic Center using data from the ...

For nearly four decades, Earth has been quietly receiving a repeating radio signal from deep space — one that challenges ...

Astronomers suspect the heart of the Milky Way may be hiding a big secret: a rapidly spinning, highly magnetic, neutron ...

Two aging stars in the binary system AFGL 4106 sculpt a glowing, egg-shaped nebula as they approach the end of their lives.

The stars will not shine forever, but that does not mean civilization must end with them. In the degenerate era and beyond, ...

Indian astronomers have investigated an ultraluminous X-ray pulsar in the galaxy NGC 4631, designated X-8. The new study, described in a paper published Feb. 16 on the arXiv preprint server, provides ...

For nearly four decades, Earth has been quietly receiving a repeating radio signal from deep space — one that challenges fundamental assumptions about how dead stars behave. The object, known as GPM ...

Aliens exist - they just haven't visited Earth, NASA veteran Dr Gentry Lee has claimed.

On February 24, 1968, an astronomy grad student Jocelyn Bell announced that she had discovered the first pulsar. A few months earlier, she noticed what she called a "bit of scruff" in the data from ...

A perplexing radio signal, repeating every 22 minutes for the past 38 years, is emanating from a distant object defying known pulsar science.

Hypothetical dark matter stars known as ‘boson stars’ could leave telltale ripples across the cosmos, offering researchers a new way to probe the invisible forces shaping the universe.By Jonathan ...

Five UW researchers have been named Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows this week, joining a prestigious cohort of early-career ...