The origin of high-energy cosmic neutrinos observed by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, whose detector is buried deep in the Antarctic...
Off-Kilter For the first time, scientists have managed to find our solar system’s precise center of gravity down to about...
Mass Gap Last week, astrophysicists announced a bizarre, unprecedented celestial object that sits smack in the middle of the theoretical...
Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have discovered the absence of an unstable massive star in...
A 50-year-old theory that began as speculation about how an alien civilization could use a black hole to generate energy...
If a star is gigantic enough, it can collapse in on itself to form a black hole. Stars that are...
The first confirmed heartbeat of a supermassive black hole is still going strong more than ten years after first being...
An investigation into one of the current great mysteries of astronomy has come to the fore thanks to a four-year...
Observations from Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) indicate that the magnetic field near our galaxy’s core is strong enough...
Astronomers have captured an image of a super-rare type of galaxy—described as a “cosmic ring of fire”—as it existed 11...
Flare Up Scientists found something peculiar coming from the center of the Milky Way galaxy: a previously-undiscovered signal they think...
Overcast Sky Astronomers have found a distant brown dwarf, a celestial body that resembles a star, that’s covered in dark...
