It's mass is "33 times that of our Sun," according to the European Southern Observatory. Credit: ESO Republicans win control ...

Nijmegen master's students predict that LISA, an upcoming space antenna project by the ESA, will detect stronger ...

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times per second, placing it among the fastest-spinning stars ever observed. The ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

The black hole lies 27,000 light-years away and has a mass about 4 million times the Sun’s mass. Credit: Space.com | footage ...

However, the email was tinged with sadness since it reports on the closing of a special nursery: “A little less than a year ...

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the Sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

This brings us to eROSITA, the Max Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics' powerful space-based X-ray telescope. Led by astrophysicist Michael Yeung of the Institute, a team of researchers has ...

If I ask you to picture a radio telescope, you probably imagine a large dish pointing to the sky, or even an array of dish ...

If the fifth planet from the Sun were a hollow shell, 1,000 Earths could fit inside. It's also the oldest planet, forming ...