But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

New research suggests sub-stellar objects called dark dwarfs could glow forever on dark matter energy. Could they reveal secrets about the universe’s hidden mass?

Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .

It was a solid run at Great Horse in Hampden for Oak Hill Country Club’s Raymond Dennehy. The UConn golfer reached the round of 16 at the Massachusetts Amateur Championship on Wednesday ...

"This discovery heralds a broader understanding of the diversity in massive stars' deaths and a need for deeper investigations into the whole landscape of stellar evolution." ...

Dark matter is one of Nature’s most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to their supercomputer simulations. We know it’s real because its mass ...

Mama Mosie Burks, a legendary gospel singer and lead vocalist in the Mississippi Mass Choir, has died at age 92.

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. - Boston College women's basketball head coach Joanna Bernabei-McNamee is excited to add Emma LoPinto to ...

When Mama Burks walked out on that stage and she did the first signature shake of her hair and her head and her hair, the whole atmosphere shook,” said Mannery.

Researchers from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have made significant ...

Accreting stellar-mass black holes in X-ray binaries are one of the best laboratories to study the accretion process and probe strong gravity—and most importantly, to measure the angular momentum, or ...

Less than two weeks later, on June 25, reports began to circulate of a second nova blossoming in the southern night sky, this ...