An international team of astronomers reports the detection of four new gamma-ray millisecond pulsars using the Murriyang ...

The pulsar, designated PSR J1617−2258A, was found in the globular cluster NGC 6093. The discovery was detailed in a research paper published Feb. 13 on the arXiv pre-print server.

Caption The entire sky as seen by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the two pulsars discovered by Einstein@Home that were now published. The field below each inset shows the pulsar name and ...

Interplanetary travel might be about to get a whole lot faster — and hotter. UK startup Pulsar Fusion today unveiled “Sunbird,” a nuclear fusion-powered rocket concept that could halve the ...

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 ...

Pulsars, rapidly spinning neutron stars, were first discovered in 1967. As a pulsar spins, it emits a continuous beam of radio energy that rotates along with the star. Like a lighthouse beam sweeping ...