Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

An object dubbed 3I/ATLAS is only the third interloper from outside the Solar System seen in all of human history.

"Very massive stars are like the 'rock stars' of the universe — they are powerful, and they live fast and die young." ...

We have discovered two interstellar objects so far, ’Oumuamua and Comet 2I/Borisov. ’Oumuamua had no dust tail and a ...

For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system.

Astronomers had long been suspecting that some stars do meet their end of life with a dual detonation and new images prove ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

Citizen scientists have spotted the moment a binary star system exploded after playing “spot the difference” with images from ...

A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that ...

Felton Davis offered thousands of strangers a close-up view of the Moon and planets orbiting New York City. Now he’s passing ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...