NASA's Curiosity rover has detected long-chain organic molecules, alkanes, in an ancient Martian lake bed. Scientists argue these findings are difficult to explain through non-biological processes ...

A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a ...

Scientists watched as a star, once one of the brightest in the Andromeda galaxy, simply winked out of existence. They have a ...

Kishalay De, an alumnus of St James’ School and currently at Columbia University, has helped solve the mystery, showing that the star collapsed directly into a black hole — without the usual supernova ...

A “disappearing” star in the Andromeda galaxy is the closest and best candidate for a newborn black hole that astronomers have ever seen ...

Astronomers have watched a dying star fail to explode as a supernova, instead collapsing into a black hole. The remarkable sighting is the most complete observational record ever made of a star's ...

Since the Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 2 trailer dropped, fans have speculated that a classic Toho kaiju will make their MonsterVerse debut.

Chappell Roan proved she’s still hot to go following her breakout year as the reigning Best New Artist is up for two more ...

Astronomers have captured the first radio signals from a rare supernova, revealing intense activity in a star’s final years before it exploded.

In our galaxy, a supernova explodes about once or twice each century. But historical astronomical records show that the last Milky Way core-collapse supernova seen by humans was about 1,000 years ago.

"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of black hole binaries." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory releases its longest-spanning video of X-ray data yet. Credit: NASA / CXC / SAO / Pan-STARRS Astronomers have turned a famous star explosion into a 25‑year time‑lapse, ...