Scientists using South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope have peered into the interstellar medium like never before, uncovering ...

Imagine the bizarre and potentially deadly environment of a planet orbiting a rapidly spinning neutron star (pulsar).

The widening of the N1 at Matjiesfontein is evidence of space-age change coming to the old Victorian village. Life on ‘the other side of the tracks’ may never be the same again. Meanwhile, the lamb ...

The assailant, seen right at the point of the break, could be a fast-spinning neutron star, known as a pulsar. Scientists ...

The careening star blasted through the galactic filament, known as "the Snake," at a zippy 1–2 million miles per hour.

The solar system consists of our star, the sun, and everything bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, ...

Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, following the declassification of Pluto nearly two decades ago, ...

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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have directly detected the faint glow of a planet that’s colder than any ...

"It's like trying to spot a fish by looking for ripples in a pond, rather than trying to see the fish itself." ...

PSR J0311+1402 flashes every 41 seconds — quite slow for a pulsar. It could help bridge the gap between fast- and ...