One of Earth's nearest stars may be a dark matter factory By Adam Mann A hunt for hypothetical axions streaming from Betelgeuse turns up empty but helps physicists set constraints on their properties.
Gamma-ray bursts don't get kicked around By Paul Sutter For years, astronomers thought that the objects responsible for short gamma-ray bursts get kicked out of their home galaxies shortly after they're born. But new observations prove otherwise.
Space photos: The most amazing images this week! By Doris Elin Urrutia See the best photos on Space.com this week.
5 twinkling galaxies help us uncover the mystery of the Milky Way's missing matter By Yuanming Wang, Tara Murphy We've all looked up at night and admired the brightly shining stars.
Supernova deaths of white dwarf stars may explode like a nuclear bomb By Charles Q. Choi When a white dwarf star explodes as a supernova, it may be detonating like a nuclear weapon on Earth, a new study finds.
These 3 spinning brown dwarfs are the fastest 'failed stars' ever seen By Kasandra Brabaw A new astronomy paper theorizes that three brown dwarfs may be reaching a cosmic speed limit, beyond which they would break apart.
Scientists paint best yet portrait of closest known fast radio burst By Meghan Bartels Scientists have uncovered more details about perhaps the most famous repeating fast radio burst, a mysterious phenomenon astronomers cannot yet explain.
Galaxies, the cosmic cities of the universe, explained by astrophysicist By Paul Sutter Galaxies are glittering cities, massive metropolises full of stars, dust, gas, black holes, magnetic fields, cosmic rays, dark matter and more.
Astronomers detect a bright-blue bridge of stars, and it's about to blow By Ben Turner Astrophysicists think a newly discovered region of the Milky Way could provide hints about the evolution of our galaxy and its potentially violent past.
Take a deep listen to these celestial-inspired sounds from NASA (Videos) By Doris Elin Urrutia A new set of videos from a unique astronomy-music project transformed spacecraft data into celestial sound baths.
Hubble telescope captures striking image of a dying galaxy By Kasandra Brabaw The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking photo of a dying galaxy.
20 years of otherworldly thought experiments: A Q&A with artist Jonathon Keats By Mike Wall For 20 years, Jonathon Keats has been asking us to recalibrate our assumptions about the universe and our place in it through a series of thought experiments. A new book dives deep into his work.
What do birds have to do with stargazing? A lot, it turns out. By Joe Rao Like many people staying home during the coronavirus pandemic, I have recently gotten into a new hobby: bird watching.
We should study 'dead' alien worlds, and maybe (carefully) seed them with life By Adam Mann Looking at the scientific information gleaned from lifeless worlds could help in the search for life, one astrobiologist says.
How can some planets be hotter than stars? We've started to unravel the mystery. By Quentin Changeat, Billy Edwards Until the early 2000s, the only known planets were located in our own neighborhood, the Solar System.
A 'lump' of dark matter may be ripping apart Taurus' face By Brandon Specktor The Hyades — the closest star cluster to our sun — is being stretched by an invisible 'lump,' researchers say.
Stunning Hubble image shows a big galaxy full of blue stars By Kasandra Brabaw Imagine a galaxy and what comes to mind likely looks like NGC 2336, a shimmering swirl of stars.
Seeing the invisible: How Nobel laureate Andrea Ghez found the supermassive black hole in the Milky Way's center By Meghan Bartels Astrophysicist Andrea Ghez has spent her scientific career peering at the center of the Milky Way, trying to see the invisible.
Dark energy camera takes hyper-detailed images of nearby dwarf galaxies By Kasandra Brabaw New, stunningly detailed images of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds have the potential to revolutionize our understanding of the stars making up these two dwarf galaxies.
Wow! This incredible image of the Milky Way took 12 years to create By Chelsea Gohd Finnish astrophotographer J-P Metsavainio spent 1,250 hours over the course of about 12 years creating a single image that reveals the magnificent beauty of the entire Milky Way galaxy.
