New X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra telescope reveals Cassiopeia A’s chaotic final hours, showing how dying stars collapse and explode.

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover — built and managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge — collected a ...

Researchers, including a Rutgers astronomer, reveal new insights into a star's death in its final momentsA team of scientists, including Rutgers-New ...

UMass Amherst physicists believe such an explosion could occur within the next decade, potentially "revolutionizing physics ...

A decade ago, the first gravitational waves confirmed that black holes collide. Telescopes soon revealed shadows of giants ...

Gamma ray bursts are the most powerful explosions in the universe, unleashing as much energy as the Sun will in its 10 ...

Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects in the universe. For decades, physicists believed their explosive deaths ...

For decades, physicists have suspected that black holes might not last forever—that at the very end of their lives, they ...

"The speed at which this doomed stellar system is lurching wildly, likely due to the extreme brightness, is a frantic sign of ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) has captured a stunning view of supernova remnant ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

NGC 7456 may look like just another spiral galaxy, but it’s full of surprises. From vibrant star-forming regions glowing pink ...