But so did the fact that the astronomers who built the observatory were all amateurs, men with day jobs who just loved to stargaze and tinker. "It's probably one of the most compelling ...

The answer, at first, is boring: it’s a simple no. But the reasons why you cannot are complex and varied – some come from the chemical structure, others from the instability, with a sprinkling ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. — For the first time, astronomers have taken a direct look at an exoplanet’s insides. An exoplanet about 800 light-years away is spilling its guts into space, and new ...

Dead stars — or neutron stars — normally spin at breakneck speeds, but a team of astronomers has clocked the new-found star taking a leisurely six-and-a-half hours to undertake just one spin ...

some mysterious objects have emerged that emit periodic radio pulses at much slower intervals, which is hard to explain with our current understanding of neutron stars. In new research, we have found ...

A large international team of scientists has observed a phenomenon that astronomers didn't ever expect to see happen in real time. The findings are described in a new paper published in ...

But in recent years, astronomers have begun to find compact objects that emit pulses of radio waves at a much slower rate. This has baffled scientists, who had thought that radio wave flashes ...

A former leading astronomer has walked free from court with a conditional discharge despite breaching his lifelong Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) — again. Newtownards Magistrates Court ...

One star has baffled astronomers since it was discovered in January 2024. The newly discovered neutron start has been nicknamed 'zombie star' but its official name is ASKAP J1839-0756. The star is ...