On a cold night in 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell sits alone in an observatory, reading the data from a radio telescope. As the pattern in the data suddenly changes, she realises she has discovered an ...

The Co Armagh woman responsible for the ground-breaking astronomy discovery of pulsars, and then denied a Nobel prize, has ...

but not for her. On a cold night in 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell sits alone in an observatory, reading the data from a radio telescope. As the pattern in the data suddenly changes, she realises she ...

Tiernan’s guests on Saturday night included former football manager Martin O’Neill, astronomer and astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell and singer Marti Pellow. Martin O'Neill appeared on the ...

Following the announcement of the alien planet, it didn't take long for hilarious memes to pop up across social media.

A distant ocean-covered world, teeming with life. That's the most likely explanation for a new discovery made by scientists ...

The discovery of pulsars dates back to 1967 when graduate student Jocelyn Bell Burnell noticed a strange repeating radio signal in her telescope data. She had no idea what to make of it and dubbed ...

British astronomer Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell was the first person to discover a pulsar in 1967 when she spotted a radio pulsar. Since then other types of pulsars that emit X-rays and gamma rays ...