This image shows a globular cluster called NGC 1651 and is about 162,000 light-years away in the largest and brightest of the ...

There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass ...

Scientists are working on an accurate way of calculating the probability of finding alien life elsewhere in the universe.

Welcome to Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, a 294,000-acre wonderland of geological marvels nestled in the heart of ...

GRANBY • The road weaves through young pines, short enough that the view is unobstructed: the Continental Divide, Indian ...

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

Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, ...

As she poured more tea, Xuezhuang told me the original story behind the recently released movie, Fall Into the Mortal World; ...

It's hard to imagine that someday, the Milky Way galaxy will cease to exist. Looking up at the stars, it feels as though Earth, and even the solar system that it belongs to, is infinite. But our sun ...

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

"Very little is known about what causes the formation of magnetars," researcher Kritti Sharma said. "Our work helps to answer this question." ...

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 ...