Ever wondered what it would be like to live near a neutron star or inside a black hole? We’re ranking the most extreme ...

Dark matter "lampshades" could slip between Earth and distant stars, causing tiny amounts of dimming that may help explain ...

If our Solar System seems stable, it’s because our short lifespans make it seem that way. Earth revolves, night follows day, ...

At dusk on a late October night in 1408, something mysterious lit up the skies above China. Ming Dynasty astronomers who ...

A breathtaking new image from the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) captures the star-forming region of Chamaeleon I, a site that ...

Very massive stars (VMSs), which typically have masses about 100 times that of our own sun, are critical components in our understanding of the formation of important astronomical structures like ...

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

Even if it wasn't a direct hit, the force was enough so that all NASA could observe was the stellar dust left behind. The irony of an object named C4 being blown to cinders by a massive ejecta ...

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A weird object in the sky that blasted pulses of X-rays and radio waves for two minutes out of every 44 could be a dead star, but it's not one that fits with astronomical theories.

A celestial object some 15,000 light-years away is emitting bright flashes of radio and X-rays that scientists are struggling ...