A new paper presents a method for distinguishing between different sources of nanohertz gravitational waves. Pulsars may be revealing faint ripples in the fabric of the universe, ultra–low-frequency ...

Researchers analyzing pulsar data have found tantalizing hints of ultra-slow gravitational waves. A team from Hirosaki ...

Physicists proposed “beat” patterns in pulsar timing can reveal nanohertz gravitational wave sources, including supermassive ...

Pulsars suggest that ultra–low-frequency gravitational waves are rippling through the cosmos. The signal seen by international pulsar timing array collaborations in 2023 could come from a stochastic ...

When you think of telescopes in space, you probably think of the Hubble Space Telescope and its younger, larger sibling, the James Webb Space Telescope.

Manuel Linares is a physicist at NTNU who studies binary stars called "spider pulsars." The stars got this name because they could eat their partner, just like some spiders do. "SpiderCat is a large ...

"Transitional millisecond pulsars are cosmic laboratories that help us understand how neutron stars evolve in binary systems." Astronomers have discovered that radiation emitted by a rapidly spinning ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

A team of researchers in China have discovered a stunning binary system in which a stellar object known as a pulsar orbited inside the outer layers of its companion star — which it accomplished after ...

For the first time, astronomers have spotted a rapidly spinning neutron star that is gravitationally bound to a helium star companion. The discovery of this unusual binary system helps confirm a long ...

Astronomers at the world’s largest telescope have found hints of a ‘missing link’ in the evolution of two binary stars that are tightly orbiting one another. It is a long-theorized type of system in ...