According to scientists, red supergiant stars should produce more supernovas. But astronomers just aren’t spotting them. Here ...

A star's mass determines its entire life story, from how it shines to how it dies. For young stars shrouded in dust, getting ...

New research explains why some black holes are missing, showing how exploding stars stop certain black holes from forming.

J. Colin Hill, an associate professor of physics, was awarded a New Horizons in Physics Prize by the Breakthrough Prize ...

Nasa is set to reveal billions of undiscovered galaxies, including a "treasure trove" of planets beyond our solar system. The ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is set to launch this coming September, has the potential to show us pockets ...

Dark matter and dark energy make up 95% of the universe. Humanity has never directly detected either. The Nancy Grace Roman ...

When Japan’s Hitomi satellite trained its X-ray spectrometer on the Perseus Cluster in early 2016, it had just weeks to live.

Special Prize for Pioneer of Theory of Strong Nuclear Force Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Awarded to Jean Bennett, Katherine A. High and Albert Maguire; Stuart H. Orkin and Swee Lay Thein; Rosa ...

When the first gravitational wave (GW) was detected back in 2015, scientists said they had opened a new window into the Universe. While most of astronomy is based on detecting electromagnetic energy, ...

A mysterious cosmic explosion has astronomers buzzing, as a strange event may hint at an entirely new kind of stellar ...