Like anthropologists piecing together the human family tree, astronomers have found that a misfit “skeleton” of a star may link two different kinds of stellar remains. The mysterious object, called ...

In a new Caltech-led study, researchers from campus and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have analyzed pulses of radio waves coming from a magnetar — a rotating, dense, dead star with a strong ...

International team reports on a radio pulsar phase of a Galactic magnetar that emitted a fast radio burst in 2020; observations suggest unique origins for 'bursts' and 'pulses,' which adds to FRB ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The reason for a strange burst of radio waves that came from deep space may have become closer to being revealed, ...

For the first time, a team of astronomers has caught a glimpse of a magnetar birth within the collapsing core of an extraordinarily bright supernova. Magnetars are a breed of neutron stars with an ...

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Astronomers have long ...

Last year, astronomers made an intriguing discovery: a radio signal in space that switched on and off every 18 minutes. Astronomers expect to see some repeating radio signals in space, but they ...

This is an artist’s impression of a magnetar, which is a special type of neutron star with an incredibly strong magnetic field. Neutron stars are some of the most compact and extreme objects in the ...

Through the looking glass: Astronomers constantly make discoveries that push the boundaries of our current understanding of the cosmos. However, sometimes they encounter objects that defy all ...

More than 15 years after the discovery of fast radio bursts (FRBs) – millisecond-long, deep-space cosmic explosions of electromagnetic radiation – astronomers worldwide have been combing the universe ...