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.
Magnetars are a class of neutron stars with the strongest magnetic fields in the Universe. These incredibly dense objects are central in the landscape of extreme phenomena such as hypernovae, fast ...
"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 ...