Radio pulsars —rapidly spinning neutron stars —are well-studied objects. They typically spin many times a second to a few ...

One type of star that emits pulsing signals is a type of neutron star called a pulsar, the collapsed core of a massive star that has gone supernova. Pulsars emit beams of radio waves as they spin, so ...

2001: A Space Odyssey gets high marks from cinephiles and ... that it takes light 100,000 years to cross the galaxy — so even if there was some sort of galactic internet, our conversations ...

The energy pulse, which occurs every three hours and lasts only 30-60 seconds, is the longest-period radio transient ever ...

Without the periods in the title’s acronym, “I.S.S.” stands for the International Space Station (ISS), the ... of heartbreak and loss, we learn so little about these people that their ...

Astronomers explain why the highly-anticipated "guest star" has not appeared in the night sky yet.

The Space Odyssey series is a science fiction series of two film adaptations from Arthur C. Clarke works. 2001: A Space Odyssey — a film and novel — produced concurrently and released in 1968 ...

The first key, the period-luminosity scale discovered by Henrietta Leavitt, allowed astronomers to calculate the distance to variable stars from ... mass in time and space.

NHK said it had chosen to broadcast 2001: A Space Odyssey on its launch night so that viewers could enjoy a "masterpiece of film history". Although many movies are shot on 35mm film, 2001 ...