Artist's illustration of white dwarf pulsar. Astronomers have discovered what is only the second example of a white dwarf pulsar. The rare stellar remnant is spinning rapidly, and as it does so, it ...

Astronomers have spotted a rare cosmic duo: a neutron star that rotates nearly a hundred times every second locked in an ultra-tight orbit with a semi-shredded star. The scientists who found the pair ...

Astronomers have discovered one of the most bizarre planets they have ever seen - a lemon-shaped world that orbits a pulsar. The planet PSR J2322-2650b's shape is distorted by the pulsar - a rapidly ...

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 ...

Scientists scanning the heart of the Milky Way have spotted a tantalizing signal: a possible ultra-fast pulsar spinning every 8.19 milliseconds near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at our ...

Astronomers have discovered a pulsar–a dense and rapidly spinning neutron star sending radio waves into the cosmos–using a low-frequency radio telescope in outback Australia. The pulsar was detected ...

An international group of scientists and a massive observing campaign may have uncovered the reason behind a distant pulsar’s flashy behavior. This pulsar, dubbed PSR J1023+0038, has two different ...

The white dwarf pulsar spins 300 times faster than Earth and could help reveal how these rare objects generate powerful magnetic fields. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...