Fast radio bursts — powerful and poorly understood cosmic eruptions — tend to occur in massive galaxies that host long-dead ...

An international team of astronomers has conducted a multiwavelength study of an X-ray binary designated 1eRASS ...

One of the most challenging aspects of astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is anticipating ...

Eventually, every stellar civilization will have to migrate to a different star. The habitable zone around all stars changes ...

This new finding suggests these emissions could be driven by magnetars or binary star systems, marking a significant leap in ...

Astronomers have spotted pure chaos lurking in the cosmos. Thousands of light years away from Earth, a small yet intensely ...

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times ...

Neutron stars represent one of the final evolutionary stages of a massive star, forming when stars with at least eight times ...

Astronomers discover a neutron star spinning 716 times per second, making it one of the fastest stars ever recorded.

In the binary system 4U 1820-30, a neutron star is spinning so fast around its center axis that it completes a breathtaking ...

Objects zoom through space at unfathomable speeds, but one spinning dying star 27,400 light-years away might just be a record setter. It’s a neutron star and is part of a binary pair in system 4U 1820 ...

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