A Jupiter-mass planet orbiting the millisecond pulsar PSR J2322-2650 completes a full year in roughly 7.8 hours, placing it ...

NASA's Webb telescope found a world squeezed into a lemon shape by a dead star, with soot clouds that condense into falling ...

This neutron star is also a pulsar, emitting powerful twin beams of light from its opposing magnetic poles as it rotates, spinning like a lighthouse beacon. The J1023 system is rare and valuable to ...

A composite image of X-ray, radio, and optical light data from the "cosmic hand" nebula leaves open questions about the interaction that created it. Credit: NASA / CXC / S. Zhang et al / ATNF / CSIRO ...

It measures about 15 miles (25 kilometres) in diameter and rotates 11 times every second, faster than a helicopter rotor.

Astronomers have discovered that radiation emitted by a rapidly spinning neutron star, or "pulsar," is dominated by the impact of its powerful particle winds — and not by the material it strips from a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Nov 21, 2024, 01:07pm EST The Guitar Nebula is the ghostly shape angled ...

Space is full of mysteries that can't be easily explained by the layman, and this latest one from a isn't likely to sour anyone on their fascination with space. Scientists from several institutions, ...

NASA's Chandra Observatory recently captured an X-ray image that helped identify a dramatic break in one of the galaxy's longest filaments. Reading time 2 minutes A galactic filament that stretches ...