GOAT, which is obviously a play on the “greatest of all time” acronym, follows a goat named Will, who’s hero is a black panther roarball champion named Jett Fillmore. Fillmore happens to be a female ...

The public must comply with existing laws governing the importation, sale, storage and use of firecrackers and fireworks in conjunction with the Chinese New Year celebrations, says Mohd Khalid Ismail.

Hubble captures a dying star cracking open the dazzling, dust-filled Egg Nebula in a rare cosmic transformation.

Their research was guided by a prediction from the 1970s: if a star collapses directly into a black hole, it should briefly glow in infrared light as it sheds its outer layers and becomes wrapped in ...

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 ...

In my January 23, 2026, “The Universe” column, I wrote about some of the biggest bangs the universe has to offer: exploding stars, hiccupping magnetars, stellar disruptions and colliding black holes.

A “disappearing” star in the Andromeda galaxy is the closest and best candidate for a newborn black hole that astronomers have ever seen ...