Watch an animation of a black hole shooting jets of particles through a "collapsing star at nearly the speed of light" and emit "x-rays and gamma rays (magenta)," according to NASA's Goddard Space ...

Over decades, he’s changed how his peers view the heavens. Space isn’t just an endless canvas to be studied at leisure, he ...

Astronomers have finally decoded the origin of a powerful seven hour signal from deep space, a blast so persistent that it ...

A supermassive black hole with a case of cosmic indigestion has been burping out the remains of a shredded star for four ...

Now, the planets of Tau Andromeda are overgrown with wildlife, nature reclaiming the skyscrapers of a once-advanced ...

Shri Kulkarni, an Indian-born astrophysicist from Maharashtra, has shaped modern astronomy while emerging from a family of exceptional achievers. Brother to Sudha Murty and brother-in-law to Narayana ...

A supermassive black hole with a case of cosmic indigestion has been burping out the remains of a shredded star for four ...

A neutrino slammed into Earth in 2023 with so much energy that it looked almost unreal. The particle carried about 220 ...

A major flare-up affected an aircraft’s data and control; the solution was so easy that it almost makes no sense.

More information about a mysterious, energetic burst, formally known as a gamma-ray burst (GRB), spotted in space 13 billion light-years away from Earth, has been unveiled. The first sighting of this ...

Using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, Chinese astronomers have observed a gamma-ray binary system known as PSR ...

In a new study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists have performed the first global simulations of monster shocks ...