DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has launched a real-time alert system, capable of issuing up to 800,000 alerts per night, to track asteroids and exploding stars.

Webb captured the object in infrared — light wavelengths that are invisible to human eyes but can pierce through thick dust.

The universe is a place of unimaginable beauty and wonder—shimmering galaxies that dance across the cosmic stage, nebulae ...

Particle never before seen on Earth detected; it could come from a primordial black hole and the origin of the universe.

Space myths stick because they sound neat. The real physics is weirder, sharper, and more beautiful once the haze clears. For ...

The catastrophic collision of a black hole and a neutron star sent ripples across the universe. New analysis of those ripples could upend a major theory about how these extreme pairs form.

When this object was first observed, it didn’t just expand scientific knowledge — it unsettled it. Its behavior defied expectations and forced astronomers to reconsider what’s possible in deep space.

Astronomers have for the first time seen the birth of a magnetar—a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star—and confirmed that it's the power source behind some of the brightest exploding stars in the ...

Cosmic voids may seem like the emptiest places in the universe, stripped of matter, radiation, and even dark matter. But they’re far from nothing. Even in these vast empty regions, the fundamental ...

Almost since they were first discovered in the early 2000s, scientists have theorized that the birth of magnetars, which have the most powerful magnetic fields in the known universe, are connected to ...