Iron from outside the solar system has sprinkled down on Antarctica in recent years. Measurements of half a ton of snow turned up interstellar iron deposited ...

Gravitational-wave hunters may have spotted their most exotic quarry yet. On 14 August at 5:10:39 p.m. EDT, a trio of gigantic detectors in the United States and ...

About 900 million years ago, a black hole probably swallowed up a dead star. Last week, the resulting ripples in space and time were finally detected on Earth.

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The isotope iron-60, produced when a star explodes, is hidden in some of Earth's most isolated places.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Stars may keep some of their youthful vigor as they age. Astronomers have spotted a star in its twilight years that spins much faster than ...

Scientists believe they've spotted a black hole gobbling up a neutron star for the first time ever. ...

Astronomers have detected evidence of one of the first stars to emerge after the Big Bang birthed the universe 13.8 billion years ago. They found traces of an ...

In a first, astronomers may just have detected gravitational waves from a black hole merging with a neutron star.

Like a misshapen potato chip, our home galaxy is warped. A new 3-D map brings the contorted structure of the Milky Way's disk into better view, thanks to ...

(Inside Science) -- A team of scientists hauled 500 kilograms of *fresh* snow back from Antarctica, melted it, and sifted through the particles that remained.

A new study provides the most accurate estimate of the frequency that planets that are similar to Earth in size and in distance from their host star occur around ...

Researchers in Antarctica turned up a large amount of a form of iron likely forged in nearby supernova explosions.

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We look deeply at viral claims about Cecilia Payne, one of the most influential and overlooked female astronomers in the history of science.

It looks like we've bagged another win for gravitational wave astronomy. A new gravitational wave detection is the best candidate yet for a type of cosmic ...

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A star with an interrupted death sequence could be the progenitor of a type of star that's totally new to science. Astronomers have just discovered type of very ...

General relativity predicts that light emitted by an object in a strong gravitational field—for example, close to a black hole—should be shifted to longer ...

It is among the most spectacular events in the universe: a merger of neutron stars. Astronomers have completed the first laboratory measurements of thermal ...

Extraterrestrial life could glow in spectacular reds and greens. Why? To shield itself from punishing flares of UV radiation.

NASA'S Hubble Space Telescope snapped this incredible picture of a dying star that confused astronomers who first encountered it.

A strange supernova spotted by the Gaia spacecraft has astronomers scratching their heads over what really happened when a massive star died.

A distant rocky exoplanet has gone one better than Tatooine, Luke Skywalker's home planet on “Star Wars,” which is famously depicted as having two suns in its ...

From where we stand here on Earth, it's easy to forget our planet is in constant motion. Most traditional time lapses of the Milky Way make it look as though the ...

According to a new study by astronomers, based on data from the Kepler Space Telescope, 1 in 4 sunlike stars should have a planet that's approximately ...

These little neutron stars have intensely magnetic poles, which could explain how they eat their twins.

About 5% of the universe's neutron stars 'glitch out' every few years, suddenly speeding up and slowing down for no apparent reason. A new study suggests the ...

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Astronomers using the Nobeyama Radio Obeservatory (NRO) 45-m telescope found that high-density gas, the material for stars, accounts for only 3% of the total ...

When scientists go looking for life on distant exoplanets, they generally focus on rocky worlds the size of Earth. But most of these so-called super-Earths orbit, not ...

In a distant arm of the Milky Way—3700 light-years from Earth, to be exact—a massive, glowing plume of dust and gas takes the shape of a bird in flight.

When the crewmembers of the starship Enterprise pull into orbit around a new planet, one of the first things they do is scan for life-forms. Here in the real world, ...

A magnetar that recently erupted with a storm of activity may have given us a lead on the mystery of fast radio bursts (FRBs). According to a new analysis of the ...

Astronomers are puzzling over how some stars—so-called hypervelocity stars—can surpass the Milky Way's speed limits, moving fast enough to escape our ...

Three giant gamma-ray flares have been detected in the last 40 years. A new paper on magnetars cracking themselves open could explain why.

THE Big Bang theory has been thrown into question after scientists discovered a star which appears to be older than the Universe itself – and it could lead to a ...

Astronomers are now studying the occurrence rates of Earth-like planets in solar systems that have a host star like Sun, according to research published in The ...

As a mathematician, Robert Vanderbei also likes to understand the physical properties of the objects he photographs. He is especially interested in how big the ...

Scientists at MIT are trying to figure out where the oxygen in the universe comes from, and how oxygen and carbon are made.

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- When the universe was born, it was hostile to life. There wasn't even any carbon until after the first stars forged it from lighter elements.

The “renegade” star explosion has never before been witnessed and is set to revise our understanding of how most massive stars die. Although the European ...

By Dr Naomi Lavelle. We are taught that stars twinkle from a very young age when we hear “twinkle, twinkle, little star” — but why do stars twinkle and planets do ...

Observations from the SN 2016iet supernova led scientists and astronomers to rethink the way giant stars ended in the universe earlier.

Dark energy is an enigmatic phenomenon that acts in opposition to gravity and is responsible for accelerating the expansion of the universe. Though dark ...

Neutrinos, so-called "ghost particles" scattered across the universe, can be 10 million times lighter than the mass of an electron, according to a new study.

Our galaxy could be littered with warm, watery planets like Earth. That's the conclusion of researchers at Penn State University, who used data from NASA's ...

India has already made it big in the aerospace world with the grand launch of Chandrayaan-2. Now, Indian scientists have also taken a giant leap in ...

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There are ancient, massive galaxies haunting the dusty reaches of our universe, invisible to the Hubble Space Telescope. But now astronomers sifting through ...

It hasn't posted any proof yet, but the former Blink 182 singer's group says it is currently studying materials to see if they came from a UFO.

Just like people, stars get old. Also like people, aging stars release a lot of gas. This newly captured image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows us NGC ...

Astronomers have stumbled upon a new class of pulsating stars, which change brightness every 6 to 8 minutes with a range of around 10% — much faster and ...

NASA'S Hubble Space Telescope snapped this incredible picture of a galactic “jewel box” lighting up a portion of the Milky Way galaxy.

Planets orbiting distant stars outside our solar system may have an even greater variety of life than earth, harbouring weird and wonderful aliens beyond our ...

NASA has a prediction for Earth after questions were raised about if the Sun could compress enough to form a black hole.

Scientists track gas through time and space to better understand how conglomerations of stars are born and die.

Scientists at the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES) have discovered 28 new variable stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

NASA's incredible picture of M101 is one of the largest photos of a spiral galaxy the Hubble telescope has ever taken. The Pinwheel Galaxy or Messier 101 ...

With help from next-generation particle accelerators, a new MIT experiment may nail down the rate at which oxygen is produced in the universe.

For the first time, heavy metal gases like magnesium and iron have been detected floating away from an exoplanet, a planet orbiting a distant sun. Why?

Travelling the galaxy to research ancient stars is hard enough for scientists, much less high schools in regional Victoria - but virtual reality is giving more ...

Astronomers are stumped over a star that appears to be older than the universe.

PERSEIDS 2019 – the annual meteor shower – peaks tonight, promising to scatter up to 100 meteors an hour throughout the night skies.

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Black holes emit powerful 'UFO' outbursts capable of altering the shape of massive galaxies, scientists from the European Space Agency have discovered.

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In 2016, astronomers announced the discovery of a rocky, habitable, Earth-sized planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star beyond our solar system.

On Thursday, Robert Downey Jr. set Twitter ablaze with a cryptic message about a secret collaboration between the Rolling Stones, NASA and the Rose Bowl.

Scientists have discovered strange repeating radio bursts emerging from deep space, more than quadrupling the number of signals detected this year. The eight ...

Disney+ unveiled a slew of new *content* and talent at the D23 Expo Friday, including a Lizzie McGuire sequel, a Muppets short-form series, and more.

(CNN) Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss will again reenter "The Matrix," starring in a third sequel to the 1999 science fiction film that's expected to begin ...

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Older stars, like the sun, can still send out massive bursts of energy that can be seen from light-years away.

Spinning stars that collapse into black holes could help explain the origins of heavy elements such as gold and silver.

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A burst of light from far away may have been an odd type of exploding star or a white dwarf being eaten by a black hole.

The universe may be full of binary stars that have been exiled from their home galaxies, thanks to one star's rowdy behavior.

According to models of stellar evolution, certain types of stars need longer than the universe has existed to form.

Two dead stars have been spotted rapidly whirling around one other, one eclipsing the other every 7 minutes. At the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), ...

A new planet-hunting algorithm suggests that at least 9 percent of nearby stars could host planets orbiting out of sight — and the stars' chemistry could help find ...

Some of the twinkling stars that spangle Earth's skies are relics from the earliest beginnings of the Milky Way galaxy, astronomers have discovered. Formed ...

As human ancestors went from swinging through trees to walking on two legs, they may have received a boost from an unlikely source: ancient supernovas.

The Subaru Telescope has captured images of more than 1800 exploding stars in the Universe, some located 8 billion light years from Earth.

Two astronomers think they've pinpointed the ancient stellar collision that gave our solar system its cache of precious gold and platinum — some of it, anyway.

Since the dawn of humanity, people have looked to the sky and marveled at the glittering lights above. With the advent of modern telescopes, scientists came to ...

There's a binary star system out there in the Milky Way, and it's acting very weird. "AG Draconis," as astronomers call it, is made up of two stars: a relatively cool ...

Small, hardy planets packed with dense elements have the best chance of avoiding being crushed and swallowed up when their host star dies, new research ...

New research has prompted a rethink of the theory that gaps in planet-forming disks around young stars mark spaces where planets are being created.

One billion years ago, a cluster of stars formed in our galaxy. Since then, that cluster has whipped four long circles around the edge of the Milky Way. In that time ...

Two recent Hubble Space Telescope photographs offer stunning looks at huge numbers of stars.