The pulsar, designated PSR J1617−2258A, was found in the globular cluster NGC 6093. The discovery was detailed in a research paper published Feb. 13 on the arXiv pre-print server. Pulsars are ...

A pulsar operates akin to a cosmic lighthouse ... The crux of Hulse and Taylor's scientific discovery was their measurements, which indicated that the celestial bodies of this system are orbiting ...

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

Bell and Hewish's discovery was the first known evidence for this, and the pulsing signal source became known as a pulsar. They changed the name of the signal from LGM to CP, for Cambridge pulsar.

They have discovered an unusual pulsar - one of deep space's magnetized spinning neutron-star 'lighthouses' that emits highly focused radio waves from its magnetic poles. The newly discovered ...

Caption The entire sky as seen by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the two pulsars discovered by Einstein@Home that were now published. The field below each inset shows the pulsar name and ...

If confirmed by current additional observations, this would make this millisecond pulsar a formidable laboratory for studying fundamental physics“. The 8 new pulsars are just the tip of the iceberg: ...

That’s what makes the Minnesota discovery intriguing ... president and CEO of Pulsar Helium, the Portugal-based company conducting the exploration, which it calls the Topaz Project.