Astronomers from the University of Turku have detected quasi-periodic oscillations in an X-ray binary, XTE J0111.2−7317, ...

Astronomers from the University of Turku in Finland and elsewhere have performed a broadband spectral and timing study of an ...

Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or so ...

After taking a closer look, however, the team realized that the only viable source for the burst was NASA’s dead Relay 2, a ...

The birth of a new star seen in 1054, bright enough to dazzle humanity and visible for 20 days. An incredible cosmic event ...

The Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) telescope is mounted on the International Space Station (ISS) and its ...

The team suggests that if there are small mountains on pulsars, China’s FAST (Five- hundred-meter Aperture Spherical ...

Pulsars, the dense cores of collapsed stars, could potentially have tiny mountains on their surfaces, challenging our current ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

Imagine a star so dense that a teaspoon of its material would weigh as much as Mount Everest, spinning hundreds of times per ...

Pulsars and neutron stars are some of the most fascinating and mysterious objects in the universe. In this video, we explore ...