Astronomers have discovered a new rapidly spinning star that races through the universe at millions of miles per hour and spins 14 times a second. The pulsar, the rapidly spinning core of a dead star, ...

Identifying the gravitational waves from black holes binaries could also make it clearer to detect primordial gravitational ...

The pulsar nebula has been named "Potoroo", after a small Australian marsupial. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers have ...

All the planets orbit in roughly the same plane because they formed from a single rotating disk of gas and dust — the solar nebula — that flattened as it spun around the young Sun. The shared origin ...

NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has produced the first-ever X-ray polarization data of the Vela pulsar wind nebula, which lies about 1,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation ...

An artist's conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting the sun, 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA-GSFC / Adriana M. Gutierrez (CI Lab) In the year 1054 CE, astronomers saw a strange ...