I’ve spent much of my long life studying — and trying to understand — the history of the universe. Along the way, I have been constantly reminded that science is essentially international: Science ...

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

Scientists say that the construction of a vast new radio telescope array in the Utah desert — known as the Deep Synoptic ...

Astronomers from the University of Turku in Finland and elsewhere have performed a broadband spectral and timing study of an ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

Rocket Lab achieved a new milestone on June 28, 2025, with the successful launch of a confidential satellite aboard its Electron rocket.

The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses.

A cataclysmic variable star was found as part of a project using two telescopes from opposite sides of the world.

See a pair of superheavy neutron stars collide in this simulation with gravitational wave audio. "An audible tone and a visual frequency scale (at left) track the steady rise in the frequency of ...

The bold question-askers at What If warn how a black neutron star could destabilize Earth’s orbit and wreak havoc.

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After taking a closer look, however, the team realized that the only viable source for the burst was NASA’s dead Relay 2, a ...