"It's an elegant answer, really, because we thought it was a tiny galaxy full of many separate cold stars, but it's actually, ...

There are several candidates for the biggest star in the universe. One of them, VY Canis Majoris, is over 1,500 times the width of the sun. If it were placed in our solar system, it would stretch to ...

A new kind of stellar explosion provides a novel way to probe the distant universe, according to new results published today in Nature Astronomy. Researchers from Lancaster University joined a global ...

Astronomers have discovered something that shouldn't exist: a galaxy so jam-packed with stars that they smash into each other about once a month.

From Newton’s falling apple to Einstein’s curved spacetime, our understanding of gravity has come a long way, yet this ...

(Main image) Theoretical illustration of a 'black hole star' (Illustration) JWST (Image credit: T. Müller/A. de Graaff/Max Planck Institute for Astronomy) ...

It's a scene that could evoke popular fantasy stories, with sparkling stars shining above misty mountaintops, but the James ...

These stellar remnants pack more mass than the Sun into the size of a single city creating a reality almost impossible to comprehend. FBI warns of 3-phase scam that is draining bank accounts Police ...

Massive stars have always puzzled scientists—how do they grow so quickly despite fierce radiation pushing material away? New high-resolution ALMA observations suggest that instead of relying solely on ...

Scientists detect the strongest gravitational wave ever, supporting Einstein’s relativity and Hawking’s black hole area law with record-breaking clarity.

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