In recent years, whenever astronomers have gazed into the night sky, they’ve noticed something peculiar: Some of its massive stars—the true titans of the cosmos—appear to be missing. The largest of ...

An international team of scientists has uncovered new clues about how stars lived and died billions of years ago by studying ...

To find out, we analysed a 300kg section of Antarctic ice, dating from 40,000 to 80,000 years ago. The process is painstaking ...

"We found a collision within a collision. The galaxy collision triggered a wave of star formation that, over hundreds of millions of years, led to the birth and eventual collision of these neutron ...

This artist’s impression shows two tiny but very dense neutron stars at the point at which they merge and explode. ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser, CC BY Billions of light years away in a remote part of ...

From black holes and baby stars to familiar solar system planets, the universe has never looked more glorious thanks to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope ...

This video explores the reasons why stars are often not visible in images from rocket launches, moon landings, and the International Space Station. It clarifies how cameras function in space and ...

Scientists have found that young stellar cousins of our sun are calming down and dimming more quickly in their X-ray output than previously thought, according to a new study using NASA's Chandra X-ray ...