Researchers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have discovered X-ray activity that sheds light on the evolution...
Scientists have found a star unlike any other one recorded—which may change our understanding of how stars die. This unusual...
A study led by the University of Oxford has used the power of machine learning to overcome a key challenge...
Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of spacetime that travel at the speed of light. These are produced in...
Neutron-star cores contain matter at the highest densities reached in our present-day universe, with as much as two solar masses...
In a hypothetical scenario, small, primordial black holes could be captured by newly forming stars. An international team, led by...
An international research team led by the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) and involving the University of Bonn has...
The cosmos comes alive in an all-sky time-lapse movie made from 14 years of data acquired by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray...
Like a celestial beacon, distant quasars make the brightest light in the universe. They emit more light than our entire...
Why are some black holes bigger than others? An astronomer explains how these celestial vacuums grow
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
Not all discoveries turn out to be actual new discoveries. This was the case for the extremely red objects (EROs)...
Two galaxies in the early universe, which contain extremely productive star factories, have been studied by a team of scientists...
