When a star’s core fills with iron, it collapses and explodes. In this blast, neutron bombardment triggers reactions that ...

Earth might seem ancient, but compared to the age of the universe, it’s surprisingly young. Our planet formed about 4.5 […] ...

Astronomers have found a neutron star that spins 716 times per second. This changes things for astronomers. What they thought ...

In a single decade, we have gone from the first-ever gravitational wave detection to several hundred of them. Every time ...

Astronomers have detected a mysterious cosmic 'heartbeat' repeating every 22 minutes, unlike any known celestial object.

A physicist with a penchant for the morbid and a writer with a taste for the macabre have looked at the gruesome science ...

The supernova was the death of a red supergiant star 500 times larger than the sun, in a galaxy just 22 million light-years ...

The sheer existence of these behemoths was immediately flagged as impossible—for one, they fell squarely within the ...

Astronomers have witnessed a massive star's explosive death, a supernova, for the first time in its early stages. Observed by ...

The 347 researchers involved in capturing the very first image of a black hole have just won the Breakthrough Prize in ...

For the first time, astronomers have observed the earliest stages of a supernova, capturing a massive star's explosive death just hours after it began. Using the European Southern Observatory's Very ...

Participation in the reactor pilot program gives us access to a Department of Energy authorization pathway aligning our ...