A growing body of peer-reviewed research and recent preprints points to statistical warning signs that the Atlantic ...

Astronomers have long debated why so many icy objects in the outer solar system look like snowmen. Michigan State University ...

A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a ...

A stellar black hole is one that’s created from the gravitational collapse of particularly massive stars, typically greater than eight solar masses. For context, one solar mass is about equivalent to ...

The team discovered the star by analyzing archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission. They used a prediction from the 1970s that theorized that when a star underwent direct collapse, it would leave ...

Astronomers tracked a star in Andromeda as it dimmed and vanished without the usual fiery explosion, offering rare clues to ...