Unraveling the mysteries of how the world might end is fascinating and terrifying. It's a topic that sparks our imagination, ...

Neutron stars, these cosmic remnants resulting from the catastrophic explosion of massive stars, represent one of the most ...

Physicists have analyzed two enormous black hole mergers that happened one month apart and have come up with tantalizing ...

A new study suggests the Milky Way’s gamma-ray glow could be a dark matter signal shaped by ancient galactic mergers.

V Sagittae’s violent mass transfer hints at an imminent nova—and a future supernova visible from Earth. Binary star systems are fairly common in the universe, as are pairs where one star is a compact ...

Using NASA's Swift spacecraft, an international team of astronomers have performed X-ray observations of a classical nova ...

Rice University researchers have captured the temperature profile of quark-gluon plasma, the ultra-hot state of matter from ...

Many space-lovers know the phrase "We are all made of star stuff." And it's true - our planet formed from the dust cloud left over from the formation of our Sun, and from the planet, all life. That ...

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...

Japanese physicists have revived Kelvin’s old idea of cosmic knots, showing how these tangled fields might explain why matter ...

In the 10 years since the first detection of gravitational waves, we have detected hundreds of these waves produced by the ...

Astronomers observed the fading light of supernova SN 2025kg, which followed the fast X-ray transient (FXT) named EP 250108a.