A Milky Way collision with a supermassive black hole might be closer than we thought. Hidden deep in the Large Magellanic Cloud dwarf galaxy that orbits the Milky Way on an ever-closing loop ...

In a groundbreaking cosmic revelation, astronomers have captured the first visual evidence of a dying star erupting in a rare ...

Astronomers have uncovered a previously unknown supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the Milky Way’s closest galactic neighbors. This groundbreaking discovery ...

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

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

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

The Milky Way and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy are currently hurtling through space toward each other at a speed of about 250,000 miles per hour (400,000 kph), setting up a possible future ...

The idea helped win Penrose a share of the 2020 Nobel prize in physics and inspired Hawking's global bestseller " A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes." But there's a caveat.

This result, extended by the late British physicist Stephen Hawking and others, underpins the idea that singularities – like the one at the Big Bang – are unavoidable. The idea helped win Penrose a ...

Since July 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope has revolutionized our cosmic understanding, delivering breathtaking images.