The curious minds at What If imagine life on a pulsar planet and how its intense conditions could reshape existence.

A pulsar traveling at speeds of up to 2 million miles per hour has been implicated in a cosmic hit-and-run involving one of ...

Discovering plasma structures in the Local Bubble with powerful radio telescopes challenges existing theories of interstellar ...

Dark matter, though invisible, weighs heavily on how we understand the universe. Its gravity sculpts galaxies, holds clusters ...

In the first edition of Apollo Frequencies, Raphael Helfand reviews avant-garde ensemble Talujon's performance of Gerard ...

Using a set of ground-based radio telescopes, an international team of astronomers has observed a slowly-spinning pulsar ...

NASA’s NuSTAR and NICER telescopes have uncovered new insights into RX J0032.9-7348, revealing its pulse pattern, spin behavior, and fluctuating luminosity.

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have revived a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 ...

In the new study, however, astronomers used the cutting-edge "Keck Planet Finder" (KPF) instrument as the W. M. Keck ...

The gas giant Jupiter still dominates the constellation Taurus as it sets in the west after sunset. Jupiter now stands just to the right of Alheka (Zeta Tauri), one of the tips of the Bull’s two ...

Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics ...