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

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 ...

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

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

Jeremy Darling’s novel approach applies astrometry to detect the gravitational wave background, offering new insights into the early universe and large-scale cosmic events.

The most luminous kilonova candidate to date (short gamma-ray burst 200522A) was detected using the Hubble Space Telescope, ...

The US space agency has discovered a mysterious object which is sending signals to Earth every 44 minutes. Located about ...

President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2026 budget request, if approved by Congress, would kill many of NASA’s plans for robotic ...

JWST's stunning image of NGC 346 shows that planets in the early universe didn’t form as quickly as theorists thought.

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An ancient star with a strange elemental fingerprint may be the missing clue to one of astronomy’s greatest unsolved ...

A neutron star's final moments may spark violent starquakes, monster shock waves, and even a fleeting, never-before-seen ...