Pulsars are a special type of neutron star that pulses (hence the name), and these neutron stars likely form as the end ...
A jaw-droppingly fast star that is one of the oldest in the galaxy has been spotted racing across our galaxy by astronomers—who were looking for something else entirely. The scientists noticed the ...
A long-held dream in astronomy has finally come into reach, and it carries a surprising emotional weight. For years, ...
UNDATED (WKRC) - Scientists captured the first-ever close-up picture of a star outside of the Milky Way galaxy, ushering in a new era of cosmic study. The European Southern Observatory (ESO) released ...
(CNN) – A celestial object was spotted with the help of citizen scientists moving so fast through the Milky Way, that it could escape the galaxy’s gravity and go intergalactic. The object, which ...
Supermassive black holes – the name given to black holes whose mass is more than 1,000,000 times the mass of the sun – can be found at the center of many galaxies. Scientists from the Weizmann ...