Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible,” Albert Einstein once pondered. But even as ...

Astronomers from the University of Turku have detected quasi-periodic oscillations in an X-ray binary, XTE J0111.2−7317, ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

Could the Universe have been born inside a black hole? This question, raised by a team of scientists, challenges the Big Bang ...

A cataclysmic variable star was found as part of a project using two telescopes from opposite sides of the world.

Astronomers have taken the first ever image that shows what happens when a star explodes twice in a supernova.

"Very massive stars are like the 'rock stars' of the universe — they are powerful, and they live fast and die young." ...

New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in ...

Astronomers studying the remnant SNR 0509-67.5 have finally caught a white dwarf in the act of a rare “double-detonation” ...