A radio pulsar is like a cosmic lighthouse, a highly dense, rapidly rotating star that emits beams of radio waves. If Earth ...

For over a decade, a dim but persistent glow near the center of the Milky Way has confused astronomers. This mysterious ...

A teaspoon that weighs a billion tons? Welcome to the world of neutron stars the ultra-dense cores left after colossal ...

Ultra-low frequency nanohertz gravitational waves emanating from pulsars may be revealing the fabric of the universe.

Scientists recreated the Milky Way’s history using supercomputers to track where dark matter should collect and collide.

At the heart of the Milky Way, a faint and widespread glow of gamma rays has puzzled astronomers for decades. The light could ...

For decades, astronomers have listened to the cosmos through pulsars — rapidly spinning neutron stars that emit perfectly ...

Pulsars could be helping scientists distinguish between gravitational waves caused by supermassive black hole collisions and ...

Pulsars suggest that ultra–low-frequency gravitational waves are rippling through the cosmos. The signal seen by ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins may be closing in on dark matter’s elusive trail, uncovering a mysterious gamma ray glow at the ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins University may have uncovered a promising clue in the long-running effort to confirm the existence of dark matter.For ...

Pulsars suggest that ultra–low-frequency gravitational waves are rippling through the cosmos. The signal seen by international pulsar timing array ...