It’s always nice when something exceeds your expectations. When the thing in question is a spinning neutron star and your expectations are how much energy it releases, though, it’s very puzzling. The ...

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The positions of the cataloged pulsars shown in a top-down view of the Milky Way. The red and orange symbols indicate millisecond pulsars, while the green and blue symbols indicate young, unrecycled ...

An international team of astronomers reports the detection of four new gamma-ray millisecond pulsars using the Murriyang radio telescope at the Parkes Observatory in Australia. The discovery was ...

WASHINGTON — About three times a second, a 10,000-year-old stellar corpse sweeps a beam of gamma-rays toward Earth. Discovered by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, the object, called a pulsar, ...

"The wild winds of material stripped from the companion star would tend to scatter and obscure radio emission, so even if the pulsar was emitting radio pulses (a very likely scenario), they wouldn't ...

About three times a second, a 10,000-year-old stellar corpse sweeps a beam of gamma-rays toward Earth. This object, known as a pulsar, is the first one known to "blink" only in gamma rays, and was ...

NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has found a trove of 294 gamma-ray-emitting pulsars, with an additional 34 candidates awaiting confirmation, marking a significant leap in our understanding of ...

Gamma-ray binaries represent one of the most dynamic and intriguing classes of high-energy astrophysical systems. These binaries typically consist of a massive star and a compact object – often a ...

NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a faint but sprawling glow of high-energy light around a nearby pulsar. If visible to the human eye, this gamma-ray 'halo' would appear about 40 ...