In 1992, astronomers discovered the first exoplanets in an unexpected part of the universe: around a pulsar, a rapidly spinning stellar corpse. Not many other pulsar planets have been found since then ...

An artist's concept depicting the pulsar planet system. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Rarely even acknowledged as the first planets discovered beyond ...

The first world found orbiting a pulsar is rarer than previously believed, deepening the mystery of how planets survive around violent dead stars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

An international group of scientists and a massive observing campaign may have uncovered the reason behind a distant pulsar’s flashy behavior. This pulsar, dubbed PSR J1023+0038, has two different ...

The neutron star PSR J0437 spins hundreds of times a second and has a mass equivalent to 1.4 suns. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works ...

Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have observed a rare type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system, whose atmospheric composition challenges our understanding of how it ...

Some stars never really die. Pulsars are the undead magnetized cores of massive stars that have met their end in a supernova. They rotate furiously, spewing jets of electromagnetic radiation from ...