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

NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory helped diagnose the cause behind a large kink in a huge filament near the center of the ...

A pulsar’s energy comes from its spinning motion ... we might find loads of weird stuff in the sky,” said Michelle Collins, an astronomy lecturer at the University of Surrey in England ...

The interstellar plasma is turbulent and scatters pulsar radio waves slightly away from a direct, straight line path. The scattered waves create a pattern of bright and dim patches that drifts over ...

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 ...

Have you ever had an X-ray taken of your bones? Well, so has the Milky Way. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory regularly images ...

More information: Daniel J. Reardon et al, Bow shock and Local Bubble plasma unveiled by the scintillating millisecond pulsar J0437−4715, Nature Astronomy (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-025-02534-6 ...

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