Black holes are just one of myriad marvels in outer space. In this feature, learn the difference between pulsars and quasars, antimatter and dark matter, brown dwarfs and white dwarfs, and many ...

named “pulsars” by the British, was one of the major astronomical finds of recent times—perhaps equal in importance to the discovery of the nature of quasars in 1963. Pulsars were first ...

Hewish and his graduate students in 1967 completed a radio telescope specially designed to observe the scintillation (twinkling) of stars, particularly quasars ... Many more pulsars have been ...

The new study suggests that miniture solar systems would not necessarily look like our own. This composite of planets in our solar system was taken by various NASA spacecraft. Included in the ...

We know about pulsars, quasars, dark matter and black holes that all exist together within the vast infinity of space. But for the Medievals, astronomy was also God’s creation and something that ...