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“Transitional millisecond pulsars are cosmic laboratories, helping us understand how neutron stars evolve in binary systems,” ...
Observations of a pulsar, consisting of a dead star spinning 600 times a second, and feasting on a stellar companion reveal ...
An international team of astronomers has uncovered new evidence to explain how pulsing remnants of exploded stars interact ...
Pulsars are the celestial remnants of giant stars that exploded in a supernova. Check out these 7 enthralling photos of pulsars shared by NASA.
Society NASA is facing the biggest crisis in its history Widespread proposed budget cuts have left the US space agency facing an uncertain future at the same time as NASA’s intended new leader ...
More than 15 billion miles from home, Voyager 1's ailing thrusters were threatening to abort the craft's mission. Until NASA engineers brought them miraculously back to life.
NASA has successfully reactivated Voyager 1’s backup thrusters, unused since 2004, in what NASA is calling a "miracle save" for the 48 years old probe now in deep space.
NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has solved a long-standing cosmic mystery about how X-rays are generated in the powerful jets of black holes like blazar BL Lacertae. By observing ...
Now, researchers using NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) have gathered data about 12 known black holes to determine the structural properties of accretion disks around different ...
With the help of NASA ‘s newest X-ray telescope, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), researchers at Stanford University have given us a whole new view of pulsar PSR B1509-58 and its ...