Mountain of debris engulfs home. Richland calls it an 'immediate threat' Elon Musk is worth a record $648 billion — and his ...

The first pulsar was discovered in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Finding these mysterious signals forever changed astronomy.

Among the more puzzling cosmic phenomena discovered over the past few decades are brief and very bright flashes of blue and ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been ...

ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3.

The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are irregular dwarf galaxies and satellites of the Milky Way. The LMC is about 163,000 ...

"A bit like dinosaurs on Earth — they were enormous and primitive. And they had short lives, living for just a quarter of a ...

Astronomers have observed a star wobbling in its orbit around a ravenous supermassive black hole that is ripping it apart and ...

A classical nova may look simple at first. A faint star brightens, sometimes enough for you to spot without a telescope, then ...

New images reveal that stellar eruptions unfold in chaotic stages, with twisting outflows and late ejections that power ...

Mysterious Bright Flashes in the Night Sky Baffle Astronomers Celestial transients shine furiously and briefly. Astronomers ...

Astronomers have confirmed a giant planet orbiting a tightly bound pair of young stars, marking a first in direct exoplanet ...