In the past three years, astronomers have discovered a mysterious new type of radio source. We call these long-period ...

A breakthrough simulation reveals how magnetars form and evolve, solving a key mystery about their magnetic origins.

In 2015, astrophysicists discovered a system consisting of two compact stars orbiting each other: a pulsar (i.e., a highly ...

Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...

Moreover, even those quarks (the up and down that comprise a neutron) get compressed into an even rarer type of quark called a strange quark—hence the name strange star. Technically, the "strange" ...

A white dwarf and a red dwarf star have been discovered closely orbiting each other emitting radio pulses every two hours.

Neutron star "mountains" would be much more massive than any on Earth—so massive that gravity just from these mountains could produce small oscillations, or ripples, in the fabric of space and time.

Scientists have captured a special kind of radio signal from a galaxy that’s nearly 9 billion light-years away from the Earth ...

"If a massive star were to explode as a supernova close to the Earth, the results would be devastating for life on Earth," said Nick Wright, an astrophysicist at Keele University in the United Kingdom ...