Astronomers have found evidence for what might be a planet with about half the mass of the Moon orbiting the pulsar PSR J0337+1715 – this would make it the least massive planet we have ever detected ...

An approximately 14 million year old pulsar star that is the “slowest-spinning” of its kind ever identified has been discovered by a PhD student from The University of Manchester. Chia Min Tan, a PhD ...

Several RIT astrophysicists are members of the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) have the primary goal of detecting gravitational waves from supermassive black ...

If the B star shows or had shown any H- emission line in the past, it is denoted as a Be star. Be stars also show excess in Infrared (IR) emission. X-Ray Pulsars are magnetized Neutron Stars. In ...

So if a pulsar flashes every three seconds, we know that's how long it takes for the neutron star to rotate once. Pulsars are how we first learned that neutron stars are, well, neutron stars ...

The Trailblazer: A spinning neutron star is tied to a mysterious tail – or so it seems. Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory found that this pulsar, known as PSR J0357+3205 (or PSR ...