Astronomers recently discovered the remains of a dead star that definitely set a record, even if they’re not sure which one. At somewhere between 2.09 and 2.71 times the mass of our Sun, the recently ...

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An artist’s impression of the the NGC 1851E binary system, looking over the shoulder of the dark mystery companion star. Credit: MPIfR; Daniëlle Futselaar (artsource.nl), CC BY Sometimes astronomers ...

The Solar system is bigger than NASA thought. There are a lot of huge objects at the edge of the solar system that we have not seen but can indirectly estimate. When astronomers say Kuiper Belt Object ...

The LIGO/VIRGO/KAGRA collaboration searches the universe for gravitational waves produced by the mergers of black holes and neutron stars. It has now announced the detection of a signal indicating a ...

A string of small gas clouds near the Milky Way’s central black hole has puzzled astronomers for years. Now, new observations ...

Using images from a NASA telescope, three amateur scientists discovered a star-like object sprinting through space — so fast, in fact, it'll whiz right out of the Milky Way. This freak of nature, ...

A team of scientists found a compact object 40,000 light-years from Earth that is either a very massive neutron star or an itsy-bitsy black hole, but they’re not sure which. The so-called mass gap ...

Reports of a fiery, elliptical object falling from the night sky on the 24th continued to surface. The Korea Astronomy and ...

A leading gravitational wave observatory recently detected ripples in spacetime that scientists say came from the collision of a dead, superdense stellar remnant and an unknown object. The stellar ...

"The most likely explanation for the dimming is a brown dwarf – an object heavier than a planet but lighter than a star – surrounded by a vast and dense ring system." When you purchase through links ...