Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

But it doesn’t last long. As the polar beams whip around the pulsar, they strike the ring of gathered material, blasting it out into space in chunks like a cosmic 21-gun salute.

The Milky Way Galaxy is full of cosmic objects of varying shapes and sizes - sometimes resembling objects here on Earth. A galactic center radio filament called G359.13142-0.20005 (or G359.13 for ...

New research published by Michigan State University astrophysicists could help scientists answer a century-old question: Where did galactic cosmic rays come from?

Pulsars are 'cosmic lighthouses' that when seen from Earth appear to be flickering stars, but actually consist of exotic stellar remnants called neutron stars.

Scientists used 12 different telescopes to unravel the mystery of why an unusual pulsar, or rapidly rotating dead star, constantly changes in brightness.

What new methods can be developed in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI)? This is what a recent white paper ...

Just in time for Halloween, NASA revealed breathtaking telescopic images showing the "bones of a ghostly cosmic hand" that died 1,500 years ago reaching out just above our heads.

New research published by Michigan State University astrophysicists could help scientists answer a century-old question: Where did galactic cosmic rays come from?

A speeding pulsar may have ‘broken’ this cosmic bone NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory helped diagnose the cause behind a large kink in a huge filament near the center of the Milky Way.

X-ray image of the newly discovered pulsar wind nebular associated with an extreme Galactic cosmic ray source 1LHAASO J0343+5254u, obtained by the XMM-Newton space telescope (DiKerby, Zhang, et al ...