For years, scientists have suspected that stars can meet their doom by a one-two punch of back-to-back explosions — but ...

Remains of this key transitional species date to a mysterious "black hole" in the fossil record.

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

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

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

And, scientists with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have detected what they like to call a ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

These black holes are the most distant and stable objects we know. Using a technique called very long baseline interferometry ...

A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that ...

Matter in intergalactic space is not randomly scattered - it forms a vast network of filamentary structures that make up the ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...