In 2015, astrophysicists discovered a system consisting of two compact stars orbiting each other: a pulsar (i.e., a highly ...

Diarmaid MacCulloch's history of sex and Christianity touches on knotty issues such as the distinction between sex and gender ...

Chinese astronomers investigated the spectral and temporal properties of a black hole X-ray binary system known as SLX ...

This image features a deep field view of the Cassiopeia constellation immersed in the glow of ionized hydrogen gas, where the ...

Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...

Astronomers detected constant stream of radio pulses emitted from across the galaxy. Team now finds the pulses are from a ...

A puzzling new type of radio signal – lasting seconds to minutes – has been linked to a binary star system featuring a white ...

Researchers conducted the first-ever near-infrared analysis of an extragalactic recurrent nova and found it is one of the ...

An international team of astronomers, including a Northwestern University astrophysicist, has traced a series of mysterious radio pulses to an ...

An international team of astronomers led by Stefan Kimeswenger from the Department of Astro and Particle Physics, together ...

Northwestern University scientists have detected the first radio pulses that can be traced to a dead-star binary.