Researchers have spent 10 years improving the massive detectors they use to catch shockwaves from colliding black holes, and ...

Astronomers have observed a gamma-ray burst (GRB) that challenges decades of understanding about these cosmic explosions.

Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third ISO ever detected. It was discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) ...

Nearly a decade has passed since an international team of scientists, including Northwestern University astrophysicists, ...

On January 14, 2025, a gravitational wave dubbed GW250114 reached Earth. Like its predecessor, GW150914, it came from a pair ...

Binary star systems are not rare. Neither are systems where one star is a remnant like a white dwarf or neutron star, and its companion is on the main sequence. In those systems, the dense remnant can ...