When will the universe die? Black holes alone do not decide the end date of the universe. Neutron stars and white dwarfs also ...

New data from space telescopes has been transformed into cosmic soundscapes, turning the mysterious activity around black ...

Scientists have discovered that the universe is decaying much faster than they thought, and have pinpointed exactly when it ...

Previous studies that didn’t factor Hawking radiation into their equations have put a white dwarf’s lifespan at 10¹¹⁰⁰ years.

In terms of human lifespans, this is like having your prognosis of 50 years being cut down to less than a trillionth of a ...

Kepler's Supernova, seen in 1604, is one of the most famous exploding stars ever seen, and now astronomers think it may have ...

A study led by astrophysicist Anirudh Patel found that magnetars — exotic neutron stars with ultra-powerful magnetic fields — ...

Stunning stellar explosions occur every second across the cosmos – some observable, most too distant to ever know, all of ...

A star’s colossal flare has revealed an unexpected origin for some of the universe’s heaviest elements, including gold and ...

The gold you wear today may have landed on Earth billions of years ago... but that is far from the beginning of the metal’s ...

Astronomers have probed the physical environment of repeating X-ray outbursts near monster black holes thanks to data from NASA's NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) and other missions.

Astronomers have discovered a likely explanation for a fracture in a huge cosmic "bone" in the Milky Way. Using NASA’s ...