NASA released new images of the "bones" of a dead star in conjunction with a new study on the astronomic event Monday. "Around 1,500 years ago, a giant star in our Galaxy ran out of nuclear fuel ...

Pulsars are the celestial remnants of giant stars that exploded in a supernova. Check out these 7 enthralling photos of pulsars shared by NASA.

Imagine a star so dense that a teaspoon of its material would weigh as much as Mount Everest, spinning hundreds of times per ...

New research from physicists at Peking University, China, suggests that some pulsars may have massive mountains on them, ...

How about the “ghostly cosmic hand” of a star corpse that exists 16,000 light-years away from Earth? With the help of NASA‘s newest X-ray telescope, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer ...

The starburst-like diagram is called a pulsar map, because it shows the location of our sun relative to known pulsars. Pulsars are the rapidly spinning remains of dying stars—the leftover cores ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A binary star system has been identified consisting of a millisecond pulsar and a helium-rich companion star with a mass between 1 and 1.6 M☉ ...

The Trailblazer: A spinning neutron star is tied to a mysterious tail – or so it seems. Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory found that this pulsar, known as PSR J0357+3205 (or PSR ...

How about the “ghostly cosmic hand” of a star corpse that exists 16,000 light-years away from Earth? With the help of NASA‘s newest X-ray telescope, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer ...