It sounds like something from the plot of Interstellar, but this plan to beam precious data back to Earth—before it’s lost ...

Using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) ...

A black hole has shredded a massive star like it was "preparing a snack for lunch," according to a team of scientists at the ...

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Astronomers were puzzled by a black hole around 50 million times the mass of the sun with no stars, spotted by the James Webb ...

For every galaxy that's visible from Earth, there are nine smaller ones that we can't see, even with all the technology we've ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is one of the most powerful telescopes ever made by NASA till now. It continues to help us set ...

It’s the greatest cosmic murder mystery of the year: How did a black hole destroy a star—and what kind of black hole is the culprit? Normally, so-called “gamma ray bursts,” sudden flashes of extremely ...

For nearly a decade, some of the most dramatic explosions in the universe have been hiding in plain sight as brief, bright flashes of blue light. New observations now suggest these outbursts are not ...

"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar explosion — or any other type of normal stellar explosion." When you purchase ...

Physicists may soon witness a cosmic fireworks show: the explosive death of a primordial black hole. Once thought to be unimaginably rare, new research suggests there’s up to a 90% chance of catching ...

Physicists have long believed that black holes explode at the end of their lives, and that such explosions happen — at most — only once every 100,000 years. But new research published in Physical ...