Imagine eating as much as you can handle, getting heavier and heavier — all while getting slimmer and slimmer. Sounds like a dream, especially after the festive period, right? Well, maybe not for ...

Astronomers have found the fastest spinning star ever discovered. The hot blue giant rotates at a dizzying 1 million mph (1.6 million km/h), or 100 times faster than our Sun. The star is close to the ...

The pulsar nebula has been named "Potoroo", after a small Australian marsupial. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers have ...

A perplexing fast-spinning star just might be the "missing link" in a long-standing pulsar mystery, scientists say. The so-called neutron star — a city-sized stellar remnant born from the explosive ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange spinning star that appears to be older than the explosion that gave birth to it, scientists say. The star is a pulsar, a rotating, super-dense core left behind ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– An international team of scientists has found the fastest-rotating massive star ever recorded. The star spins around its axis at the speed of 600 kilometers per second at ...

(Inside Science) — Astronomers have detected the fastest-spinning white dwarf star found yet — one that researchers say acts like an extraordinarily powerful magnetic propeller, a new study finds.

Astronomers announced this week the discovery of the fastest-rotating white dwarf star on record, with a spin rate of once every 25 seconds. The star is about the size of Earth but, by the team’s ...