Cosmic relationships in space mirror human connections, with some stars locked in destructive, codependent partnerships.

Astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and elsewhere have used the Subaru Telescope to ...

In A Nutshell A star 3,260 light-years away dimmed by over 95% for six months, one of the longest stellar blackouts ever ...

Kishalay De, an alumnus of St James’ School and currently at Columbia University, has helped solve the mystery, showing that the star collapsed directly into a black hole — without the usual supernova ...

ASASSN-24fw is a star a little bigger and heavier than our Sun. It is an F-type, main-sequence star which means it is hot, bright, and stable and not prone to sudden explosions ...

As Idaho Gov. Brad Little seeks a third term as governor, it’s clear he has made his peace with his party’s right-wing ...

Previous observations of stars whipping around an unseen mass—especially a bright star called S2—have pointed to an object ...

1969 was a nice year for Westerns, so we've picked five memorable examples from the year that went on to define the genre.

Astronomers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville may have found the closest evidence yet of a hidden clump of dark ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will conduct a wide-area survey to study dark matter, dark energy, and the expansion of the universe across 11 billion light-years.

Galaxy clusters are the heaviest structures in the universe, yet most of their mass is invisible, inferred only from the way it tugs on light and galaxies. Now a new class of “dead” stars, white ...

A recently published study in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has uncovered an intriguing explanation for ...