As civilizations advance, they may need to migrate across the galaxy, and some researchers speculate they could use their own stars as massive engines. New research explores the possibility of a ...

The moment creates a beautiful sight in simulations of how space works. In stellar clusters - groups of stars that can contain as few as a dozen to as many as millions - binary black holes can collide ...

The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...

Most people have heard of "love at first sight." But how about "love at first collision?"In a study fit for Valentine's Day, Northwestern University ...

In a significant development, a team of scientists from the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, have discovered a ...

Using the X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) and Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), Indian astronomers have ...

Scientists have discovered a new way to probe the interiors of neutron stars by using gravitational waves to turn them into ...

An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole ...

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

A new study from the department of astronomy found that when one of the two stars in a binary star system accumulates mass ...

The study analyzed the circumstellar disks of a pair of stars, learning about how planets are formed from some unexpected ...

Under the influence of gravity, dark matter forms an intricate cosmic web composed of filaments, at whose intersections the brightest galaxies emerge. This cosmic web acts as the scaffolding on which ...