For decades, astronomers have been puzzled by strange “zebra stripe” patterns in radio waves from the Crab Pulsar — bright bands separated by complete darkness. Now, new research suggests the answer ...

UK-based Pulsar Fusion announced it has successfully achieved first plasma in its Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket exhaust system. The demonstration, a world’s ...

Astronomers have employed the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) to investigate a peculiar pulsar wind nebula known as ...

Pulsar Fusion, a UK-based space propulsion company developing advanced propulsion technologies for the rapidly growing satellite and deep-space markets, today announced that it has achieved “first ...

In this initial demonstration, engineers successfully produced plasma within the engine’s exhaust system. Rather than focusing on full fusion reactions yet, the test validated a ...

For more than two decades, a radio signal from the Crab pulsar has displayed perfectly spaced bands. This observation has long intrigued the astronomical community, as no other pulsar shows ...

Greek mythology has given a name to a great many objects in our solar system. But perhaps one of the least well understood ...

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 ...