Kilonova explosions from neutron star collisions may damage atmospheres and threaten life if nearby, according to a new study ...

The discovery was detailed in a research paper published March 16 on the arXiv preprint server. Pulsars are highly magnetized ...

A cosmic enigma, ASKAP J1839-0756, a slow-spinning neutron star discovered using the ASKAP radio telescope, is challenging ...

This "pulsing" appearance gives some neutron stars the name pulsars. After spinning for several million years pulsars are drained of their energy and become normal neutron stars. Few of the known ...

In doing so, we are observing nearly 80 pulsars and their lines of sight, and NANOGrav members are involved in a wide range of synergistic science goals beyond the study of gravitational waves, ...

In 2015, astrophysicists discovered a system consisting of two compact stars orbiting each other: a pulsar (i.e., a highly magnetized rapidly rotating, light-emitting neutron star) and a so-called ...

These pulses are unlike anything expected from known radio-emitting neutron stars, or pulsars*, which produce pulses on the order of milliseconds. Furthermore, these so-called long-period ...

come to resemble rotation-powered pulsars, here we have an unambiguous case of a Janus-faced neutron star significantly powered now by rotation, now (in addition) by magnetic field decay.