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June 12, 2018

Mysterious 'puffy' objects lurk near the Milky Way's monster black hole

Near the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way's center, astronomers have discovered strange, puffy objects that look like gas clouds but act like stars.

June 12, 2018

Universe has way more huge stars than scientists thought

A surprisingly large number of massive stars have been spotted in regions across the universe, shedding new light on how galaxies near and far evolve, a new study shows.

June 8, 2018

Did a neutron-star collision make a Black Hole?

In August 2017, for the first time ever, scientists spotted gravitational waves generated by the merger of two superdense stellar corpses known as neutron stars .

June 1, 2018

'Lonely' neutron star looks fabulous in this new close-up

A rare discovery twinkles in the debris of an ancient supernova: the first isolated neutron star ever found outside the Milky Way.

May 31, 2018

A tarantula and seahorse make up these dazzling nebulas

Astronomers have captured a striking new image of the Tarantula Nebula that highlights its abundance of stars and stunning luminosity.

May 18, 2018

Black hole traffic accidents may produce monster mergers

New research reveals that some black hole collisions may cascade, with the dense objects crashing into one another to create even more-massive black holes.

May 4, 2018

Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks this weekend: What you need to know

Expect to see more showers in May — meteor showers, that is.

May 3, 2018

Stephen Hawking's final paper cuts the multiverse down to size

Stephen Hawking's final paper, which aims to test a theory that proposes parallel universes, appeared today (May 2) in the Journal of High Energy Physics.

April 27, 2018

Scientists peer across the universe and find an ancient galactic collision

Astronomers set their sights on an area incredibly far away — more than 90 percent of the way across the observable universe — and found the beginnings of a massive cosmic collision, according to two new studies.

April 23, 2018

Here's how we know the Big Bang happened

At 13.8 billion years ago, our entire observable universe was the size of a peach and had a temperature of over a trillion degrees.