A distant pulsar’s radio signal flickers as it passes through space, much like stars twinkle in Earth’s atmosphere. By ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has turned up a world that looks more like a squeezed citrus fruit than a planet, a distorted ...

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 ...

NASA’s push for a new nuclear rocket engine is not just another upgrade to the hardware we strap to the bottom of spacecraft.

Space propulsion company Pulsar Fusion has started construction on a large nuclear fusion chamber in England, as it races to become the first firm to fire a nuclear fusion-powered propulsion system in ...

Pulsar Fusion may be a new name in the space race, but they are one of the most famous companies now for getting funding from the United Kingdom Space Agency (UKSA) for its novel development. The ...

A recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics examines the mysterious behavior of one of the most mysterious objects in the universe, a pulsar, which is a rapidly rotating neutron star that ...

Illustrated GIF showing a neutron star with a circum-pulsar disk. If seen at the proper angle the scattered emission from the inner part of the disk could produce the extended infrared emission ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A supernova explosion flung out a super-dense, whirling stellar core, sending it streaking across ...

On November 28, 1967, astronomers found the first pulsar. A pulsar is a super-dense star that rotates super fast. As the pulsar spins, it emits two beams of light in opposite directions. When ...

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In a zesty new discovery, scientists have unearthed a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet. It is unlike one we have seen before, ...