Jun 16 2011
Star SOS Detected From Space
Astronomers pick up a mayday call from a star being ripped apart by a black hole 3.8 billion light-years from Earth.
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Jan 20 2011
The Crab, the Pulsar and the Gamma-Ray ‘Burp’
Why is the pulsar at the center of the Crab Nebula acting so strange?
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Nov 24 2010
How to Use a Pulsar to Find Starbucks
Cosmic GPS would employ pulsing stars, not satellites, as celestial beacons.
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Oct 27 2010
New Neutron Star Largest Ever Discovered
Located about 3,000 light-years away, the neutron star also provides a very direct measure of Einstein's theory of general relativity.
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Oct 20 2010
The Magnetar in Pulsar’s Clothing
New observations of a suspected magnetar suggest that it may have been masquerading as a "normal" pulsar.
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Aug 26 2010
Distant Pulsars Used to Measure Jupiter
How do you find out the mass of Jupiter? You could send a space probe there to study the distant world, but there's another way.
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Aug 19 2010
X-Ray Pulsar Eclipse Reveals Neutron Star’s Secrets
What's in a neutron star? Well, neutrons, obviously. However, despite the deceptively simple label, the inner workings of neutron stars remain elusive. But that could soon change.
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Jul 04 2010
Pulsars: The Cosmic Timekeepers That Need Tweaking
The universe has its own cosmic clocks: the spinning collapsed stars known as pulsars. But why are they ticking slightly out of step?
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Jun 21 2010
Are We Overlooking Alien Beacons?
Despite our best search strategies, are signals from E.T. manifested in anomalous flashes of radio energy from our galaxy that are missed, or dismissed as natural phenomena?
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Apr 27 2010
Shedding New Light on a Pulsar Mystery
The fledgling Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) is teaming up with other radio telescopes to probe the beams of intense radiation emitted by pulsars, potentially answering the mystery as to how they are generated.
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