The icy solar system comet C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos) is set to make its closest pass of Earth tomorrow (Feb. 17), an event known to astronomers as perigee. But your ability to see the ancient wanderer ...

Astronomers have witnessed a rare cosmic event: a massive star that didn’t explode in a spectacular supernova, but instead ...

The formation of a black hole can be quite a violent event, with a massive dying star blowing up and some of its remnants collapsing to form an exceptionally dense object with gravity so ​strong not ...

A massive star roughly 2.5 million light-years away in the Andromeda Galaxy has quietly disappeared, and the best explanation ...

An annular solar eclipse will turn the sun into a dramatic "ring of fire" on Feb. 17, as the moon passes between Earth and ...

The event was first recorded in 2014, when a Nasa space telescope noticed a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy slowly ...

Mysterious Iron Bar Found in Space Could Hint at How Earth’s Future Might Change Forever ...

A massive star brightened in infrared light, then vanished without exploding. Astronomers uncovered the quiet birth of a black hole.

The mysterious Blaze Star in the Corona Borealis constellation could flare bright enough to see with the naked eye.

The next annular solar eclipse will occur on Feb. 6, 2027, when a "ring of fire" will be visible for up to 7 minutes, 51 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory have captured the clearest image yet of a galaxy cluster in the making, seen when the universe was only one billion years old.