A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a ...
Using archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission along with data from other space and ground-based observatories, astronomers identified the clearest observational record yet of a massive star fading ...
President Donald Trump said Friday a second aircraft carrier will head for the Mideast "very soon" as he continues to press ...
Hypothetical dark matter stars known as "boson stars" could leave telltale ripples across the cosmos, offering researchers a new way to probe the invisible forces shaping the universe. In 2019, a ...
A SpaceX rocket soared into orbit from Florida early on Friday (February 13) with a crew of two U.S. NASA astronauts, a ...