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

Kennedy’s decision to replace ACIP wholesale and the comments he has made about deviating from standard vaccine policymaking ...

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 ...

Two of the universe’s most extreme objects—black holes and neutron stars—can spiral into cosmic collisions that crack crusts, ...

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

Smith, the former Astronomer Royal, who has died aged 102, was a pioneer of radio astronomy, carrying out research which ...

A study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics by a researcher from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese ...

Astronomers in China have observed a pulsar that becomes partially eclipsed by an orbiting companion star every few hours.

If successful, the Sunbird could exceed even the Parker Solar Probe — the current speed record holder — by reaching up to 805 ...

Pulsar UK has signed an agreement with Thales Alenia Space (TAS) for the Pulsar’s 5kW MOONRANGER Hall-effect thrusters, which ...