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 ...

The signal they detected is a fast radio burst, or FRB. It's essentially a strong burst of radio waves. FRBs typically last for a few milliseconds at most. However, the signal the astronomers detected ...

Astronomers have added a new species to the neutron star zoo, showcasing the wide diversity among the compact magnetic remains of dead, once-massive stars. While it’s an oddball, some of this newfound ...

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 ...

Fast Radio Bursts (FRB) are enigmatic events involving an extremely short-lived burst of bright radio waves from far away in space. And even though they generally last just a few seconds, they can ...

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered a vast cloud of high-energy particles called a wind nebula around a rare ultra-magnetic neutron star, or magnetar, for the first time. The find offers a unique window into ...

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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 ...

The discovery of a neutron star emitting unusual radio signals is rewriting our understanding of these unique star systems. My colleagues and I (the MeerTRAP team) made the discovery when observing ...