The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a sun-like star, ...

Children’s books usually show a moon rising at night, but the moon rises in the sky at night only half of the time. The rest ...

Here are seven fascinating images of Mercury, shared by NASA, showcasing the unique features of the smallest and closest ...

Black holes exert a tremendous influence on their surroundings, meaning that when they spin, they literally drag the very fabric of space and time around with them. That means nothing can sit still ...

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

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times ...

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

The neutron star, about 26,000 light-years from Earth in the Sagittarius constellation ... suggesting a neutron star spinning ...

A "dead star" neutron star has been spotted spinning 716 times a second, astonishing astronomers who say it is the joint ...

"So, we think that events of much smaller magnitude could plausibly shake things up on its surface." It's also predicted that ...

The neutron star 4U 1820-30 is one of the fastest spinning bodies in the universe, spinning at 716 times a second and ...