Astronomers studying archival observations of powerful explosions called short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have detected light patterns indicating the brief existence of a superheavy neutron star shortly ...

sources can be uncertain by as much as a degree so making it difficult to identify their origin. Two of the newly discovered pulsars have positions which coincide within the positional uncertainties ...

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) is teaming with NASA’s upcoming Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) to allow astronomers to use both the orbiting facility and ground-based ...

Two neutron stars begin to merge in this artist’s concept, blasting jets of high-speed particles. Collision events like this one create short gamma-ray bursts. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight ...