The Milky Way Galaxy is full of cosmic objects of varying shapes and sizes - sometimes resembling objects here on Earth. A ...

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.

Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and powerful radio telescopes have likely solved a cosmic mystery—what ...

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have uncovered the likely cause behind a mysterious fracture in one of ...

Astronomers, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and radio telescopes, have discovered a pulsar likely caused a fracture ...

Astronomers have discovered a likely explanation for a fracture in a huge cosmic "bone" in the Milky Way galaxy, using NASA's ...

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

So, long-period transients can’t be so slow and so bright if they’re caused by the same mechanisms as rotationally powered pulsars. Some might still be neutron stars behaving in unexpected ways.