The careening star blasted through the galactic filament, known as "the Snake," at a zippy 1–2 million miles per hour.

PSR J0311+1402 flashes every 41 seconds — quite slow for a pulsar. It could help bridge the gap between fast- and ...

Near the center of the Milky Way are enormous filaments of radio energy that sometimes look like bones, and one in particular has astronomers playing orthopaedists. If the new picture at the top of ...

Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), Chinese astronomers have discovered a new millisecond ...

Theoretically, Sunbird's tremendous speeds could cut mission times to Mars in half, from seven to eight months to about four.

Scientists using South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope have peered into the interstellar medium like never before, uncovering ...

With the most powerful radio telescope in the southern hemisphere, we have observed a twinkling star and discovered an ...

A team of NASA researchers has uncovered a massive fracture in the Milky Way galaxy's structure, caused by a pulsar ...

National Radio Astronomy Observatory Caption A 21-year study of a pair of ancient stars -- one a pulsar and the other a white dwarf -- helps astronomers understand how gravity works across the cosmos.

Head of the Pulsar Group of the Jodrell Bank Observatory/Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics (2005-2009), Associate Director of the Jodrell Bank Observatory (2007-2009), Professor for Astrophysics at ...

The scintillation arcs also gave us the velocities of the plasma layers. Far from being as expected, we discovered that one ...