At the heart of our galaxy lies a cosmic puzzle: although the Galactic Center is packed with star-making material, massive ...

To answer these questions, it is easiest to start with the amount of gold that humans have mined to date. The U.S. Geological ...

Data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of small galaxies that played a starring role in a cosmic ...

Astronomers have uncovered a bizarre star, ASKAP J1832, that pulses radio waves and X-rays every 44 minutes—thousands of times slower than typical pulsars. This rare object also dims dramatically over ...

They hold hundreds of thousands to millions of stars that average about one light-year apart, but they can be as close ...

These findings confirmed that atomic nuclei can decay by losing individual protons, not just clusters like alpha particles.

The sharpest images of the universe are created when radio telescopes around the world work together. For the first time, the ...

See a pair of superheavy neutron stars collide in this simulation with gravitational wave audio. "An audible tone and a ...

A near-complete census of our interstellar neighborhood hopes to answer how stars, brown dwarfs and rogue planets form ...

"When nearby supernovas occur in the future, the radiation could have a pretty dramatic effect on human society." ...

The Tianwen-2 probe has sent a self-portrait as it heads toward one of the most enigmatic objects in our space neighborhood: ...

Astronomers have discovered the "missing link" connecting the death of sunlike stars to the birth of white dwarf stellar ...