The existence and origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs) has been a hot topic in astronomy research in recent years. Now that we are beginning to unravel this cosmic mystery, scientists know what to look ...

These are big, literally cosmic questions, and astronomers continue to struggle to nail down the answers. Different ...

Astronomers have spotted pure chaos lurking in the cosmos. Thousands of light years away from Earth, a small yet intensely ...

There are monstrous objects at the heart of every large galaxy — black holes that are millions or even billions of times more ...

A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...

Powerful electromagnetic radiation from an enormous radio telescope in Puerto Rico may have fast-tracked structural damage that led to the instrument's collapse in 2020, a new report says.

The researchers came to this conclusion while studying 15 thermonuclear X-ray bursts using the Neutron Star Interior ...

An ancient black hole near the galactic center is consuming matter at over 40 times the theoretical limit, raising questions ...

As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center.

Astrophysicists have, for the first time, measured the temperature of elementary particles in the radioactive afterglow of a neutron star collision, which led to the formation of a black hole. This br ...

A scathing new report points to unclear protocols and multiple failures to raise alarms at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto ...

The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...