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

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, ...

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

Named for NASA's first chief of astronomy and the first woman to hold an executive position at the agency, this space ...

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

Six $3 Million Prizes Awarded for Outstanding Discoveries in Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics and Mathematics Gene ...

An international team of researchers – including experts at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) in the ...

Starquake data is revealing ancient “fossil fields” responsible for stellar magnetism from birth through a star's final end.

Explore the Hubble tension debate as astronomers reveal conflicting expansion rates, challenging our understanding of the ...

A community-built distance network sharpens the Hubble constant and broadens the evidence behind the “Hubble tension.” ...

Astronomers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have employed the Lijiang 2.4-m telescope to perform optical ...

An international research team led by Chinese scientists has discovered new evidence about Type II-P supernovae, suggesting that some of these stellar explosions may originate from merged binary stars ...