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March 19, 2018

Bizarre stunted galaxy found in our own cosmic backyard

Astronomers are hunting down the cause of a nearby galaxy's "arrested development" with the help of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

March 16, 2018

How Stephen Hawking transformed our understanding of black holes

There's a lot we still don't know about black holes, but these light-gobbling behemoths would be even more mysterious if Stephen Hawking hadn't plumbed their inky depths.

March 15, 2018

Mysterious Milky way signal comes from the past, not dark matter

A mysterious cosmic signal radiating from the center of our Milky Way galaxy is actually triggered by ancient stars, rather than dark matter, according to a new study.

March 15, 2018

Meet 'Steve,' the aurora-like mystery scientists are beginning to unravel

New work helps to codify the cause and properties of "Steve," an aurora-like phenomenon documented by citizen scientists as it streaked across the sky in western Canada.

March 14, 2018

Scientists discover 15 new planets, including 'super-Earth' that could harbor liquid water

Scientists have discovered 15 new planets, including a 鈥渟uper-Earth鈥� that may have liquid water on its surface.

March 14, 2018

Stephen Hawking, famed physicist, dead at 76

Stephen Hawking, the famed theoretical physicist who defied a diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to live virtually his entire adult life with the disease 鈥� in a wheelchair and paralyzed but making constant contributions to a world few could understand 鈥� has died at age 76, a family spokesman said.

March 12, 2018

Biggest black holes may grow faster than host galaxies

Some of the most monstrous black holes in the universe are growing faster than their host galaxies, new research suggests.

March 9, 2018

Massive space structures have surprising connection to Quantum mechanics math

Enormous disks of stars or debris can operate under the same rules as subatomic particles, changing based on the Schrodinger equation, which physicists use to model quantum-mechanical systems.

March 9, 2018

Dying star reanimates stellar corpse

The superdense corpse of a once-massive star roared back to life, briefly, by feasting on its dying companion, a new study suggests.

March 7, 2018

Passing through a black hole could open up a whole new future, but it would erase your past

It鈥檚 a controversial idea. But an enticing one. A new study has once again tackled the implications of a black hole鈥檚 event horizon 鈥� the point beyond which not even light can escape its gravitational pull.