Eleven-year-old Touren Pope was hunting for rocks in southwest Wyoming when he came across the fossil of a soft-shelled ...

Astronomers have watched a dying star fail to explode as a supernova, instead collapsing into a black hole. The remarkable sighting is the most complete observational record ever made of a star's ...

The formation of a black hole can be quite a violent event, with a massive dying star blowing up and some of its remnants ...

An international team of scientists has discovered that a small, low-abundance protein plays a surprisingly big role in ...