It's the final act for a star in the constellation Cygnus, some 1,000 light-years away. But this star is not dying without one final show, it appears — and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured ...

Hubble keeps returning to the Egg Nebula because it changes in ways astronomers can actually track over years and decades. By comparing images taken at different times, scientists can see dust shift, ...

World-renowned astrophysicist Prof Duncan Lorimer, who led the discovery of the first Fast Radio Burst (FRB) as among the brightest and mos.

Then, last week, the United States and Russia allowed New START, their last nuclear arms control treaty, to die. For the first time in 50 years, the two nations do not have limits on the size or ...

The expiration of New START leaves U.S. and Russian nuclear forces unconstrained, raising risks of miscalculation and arms ...

What survives a black hole: an additional black hole, or a neutron star? Recalculations put the two at the same clock and the ...

New START expired on February 5, ending decades of U.S.-Russia cooperation to reduce each country’s nuclear weapons on alert. Four arms control experts provide insight on whether the end of the treaty ...

Merger of two neutron stars in the aftermath of a supernova may have been observed for the first time, though questions ...

When the universe first burst into being, all of space was a cosmic cauldron filled with a roiling, fiery liquid of ...

After 25 years, Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—the U.S.’s largest particle collider—has ...

NASA hopes to accelerate the launch of a mission with SpaceX known as Crew 12 after 4 other astronauts on a previous mission ...

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) recently captured an extraordinary image that features both ...