Astronomers recently discovered the remains of a dead star that definitely set a record, even if they’re not sure which one. At somewhere between 2.09 and 2.71 times the mass of our Sun, the recently ...

EVANSTON, Ill. (CBS) -- Northwestern University astrophysicists were among those involved in an international research collaboration that has detected a gravitational-wave signal caused by a merger of ...

- Lagoon Nebula (M8) is an emission nebula in Sagittarius.

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Astronomers have discovered a highly unusual object within the Milky Way that emits both X-rays and radio waves in a synchronized cycle roughly every 44 minutes. The object, named ASKAP J1832−091, was ...

Scientists have captured the first direct images of colliding objects in a neighboring star system. Astronomers have seen the aftermath of two powerful collisions within a 20-year period around a ...

The LIGO/VIRGO/KAGRA collaboration searches the universe for gravitational waves produced by the mergers of black holes and neutron stars. It has now announced the detection of a signal indicating a ...

Using images from a NASA telescope, three amateur scientists discovered a star-like object sprinting through space — so fast, in fact, it'll whiz right out of the Milky Way. This freak of nature, ...

The Solar system is bigger than NASA thought. There are a lot of huge objects at the edge of the solar system that we have not seen but can indirectly estimate. When astronomers say Kuiper Belt Object ...

An artist’s impression of the the NGC 1851E binary system, looking over the shoulder of the dark mystery companion star. Credit: MPIfR; Daniëlle Futselaar (artsource.nl), CC BY Sometimes astronomers ...

A team of scientists found a compact object 40,000 light-years from Earth that is either a very massive neutron star or an itsy-bitsy black hole, but they’re not sure which. The so-called mass gap ...

A strange cosmic object that has puzzled astronomers for two decades has been revealed to be the ancient remains of a long-dead star. More specifically, new research conducted with space- and ...