Astronomers spot gas falling onto a neutron star for the first time, revealing how matter flows towards the star |
Astronomers have, for the first time, watched gas fall onto a neutron star. A team led by Roi…
Einstein Probe Discovers a Secret Phase of Neutron Star Collisions
Artist’s impression of satellites observing high-energy prompt emission from a binary neutron star merger. SVOM and HXMT detected…
In 1967, US satellites hunting secret nuclear tests detected a flash from deep space; the accidental signal became the first observed gamma-ray burst
Artist’s concept of a close-up naked-eye view of a GRB. Credit: NASA For more than half a century,…
Scientists Solve a Decades-Old Mystery Inside Atomic Nuclei
A long-standing puzzle in nuclear physics may finally have an answer: unexpected low-energy gamma rays in zinc-70 appear…
New research reveals massive stars both exploded in tandem
‘A rare opportunity’ The discovery may offer insight into binary systems composed of massive stars. “This system provides…
South Africa telescope catches faint pulse from Blue Eye Pulsar after decades of silence
For decades, astronomers thought the Blue Eye Pulsar, a rare neutron star in the middle of a supernova…
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Could Finally Find the Milky Way’s Missing Neutron Stars
NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could uncover one of the Milky Way’s biggest hidden populations: invisible…
A pulsar rotating 122 times per second could be present at the heart of the Milky Way
ⓘ NidhiYashwanth – Pixabay An artist’s illustration showing a pulsar. After conducting research, astronomers would have discovered a…
Physicists Begin Building First-Ever Graviton Detector
Stevens Institute of Technology physicist Igor Pikovski and colleagues are developing the first experiment designed to capture individual…
Astronomers Appear to Have Caught a Star Splitting In Half, With Catastrophic Results
A team of astronomers believe they’ve witnessed a star split in half before merging back together again, triggering…
NASA’s Webb finds bizarre carbon-rich exoplanet orbiting a pulsar
A planet that shouldn’t exist is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about worlds beyond our solar system.…
Webb Detects Exotic Helium-and-Carbon-Rich Atmosphere around Pulsar-Orbiting Exoplanet
PSR J2322-2650b, an enigmatic Jupiter-mass exoplanet orbiting the millisecond pulsar PSR J2322-2650, appears to have an exotic helium-and-carbon-dominated…