New research indicates that matter ejected during the supernova death of a star can fall back to neutrons stars, giving rise ...

Researchers Believe the First Stellar Explosions Might Have Released Water to Set Stage for Life After the Big Bang The vast ...

Astronomers discover an unusual neutron star that emits double pulses, challenging theories about stellar remnants.

When the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton pointed its telescope at two unidentified sources of light in the outskirts of ...

Unprecedented discovery of fast radio bursts challenges existing theories. Astronomers detect repeated signals from an ancient galaxy 40,000 light-years away.

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could they be?

Astronomer Calvin Leung was excited last summer to crunch data from a newly commissioned radio telescope to precisely pinpoint the origin of repeated bursts of intense radio waves—so-called fast radio ...

If these weird episodes are the result of an orbiting white dwarf, a type of stellar remnant left behind when a star with around the mass of the sun dies, then this dead star is performing an ...

Pulsars are the remnants of large stars that exploded in a supernova. Check out these 7 stunning pulsar images shared by NASA ...

An artist's illustration depicts radio waves and X-rays releasing from a magnetar, a highly magnetized stellar remnant. Magnetars are the likely source for many fast radio bursts. - ESA The pattern of ...