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

Astronomers have described the first measurements of plasma layers within an interstellar shock wave that surrounds a pulsar.

Ramesh Nathan told investors his Bay Area spacecraft company had seven offices around the world, employed more than 15,000 ...

The interstellar plasma is turbulent and scatters pulsar radio waves slightly away from a direct, straight line path. The ...

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

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby, revealing a long, lumpy, odd-shaped space ...

Ramesh Nathan told investors his Bay Area spacecraft company had seven offices around the world, employed more than 15,000 ...

Astronomers have detected drifting water clouds in deep space, far from any planet or star. This discovery strengthens the ...

We now realise our local interstellar medium is filled with these ... the pulsar and plasma all move through space. From our vantage point, this causes the pulsar to twinkle, or “scintillate”.