Astronomers have spotted pure chaos lurking in the cosmos. Thousands of light years away from Earth, a small yet intensely ...

Deep within the Orion Nebula, researchers are one step closer to understanding how Jupiter-mass binary objects (JuMBOs) ...

A dead star 27,400 light-years away appears to be having one of the most epic stellar discos we've ever seen. In the binary ...

Neutron stars represent one of the final evolutionary stages of a massive star, forming when stars with at least eight times ...

Astronomers discover a neutron star spinning 716 times per second, making it one of the fastest stars ever recorded.

Scientists have discovered more clues about the birth of fast radio bursts (FRBs) emitted from distant galaxies whose origins ...

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times per second, placing it among the fastest-spinning stars ever observed. The ...

Astronomers have identified one of the fastest-spinning neutron stars in the universe, located in the binary system 4U ...

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Astronomers observed neutron star 4U 1820-30 spinning at 716 times per second, among the galaxy’s fastest, emitting bursts ...