Astronomers believe starquakes on highly magnetic neutron stars could lead to the creation of heavy elements such as gold, ...

"If there were only one object, that would be interesting but an outlier. If there's two, we're pretty confident that's a ...

A powerful cosmic event from 2004—a gamma-ray burst from a magnetar 30,000 light-years away—has just been revealed as a major ...

The careening star blasted through the galactic filament, known as "the Snake," at a zippy 1–2 million miles per hour.

By sifting through that vast dataset, the team found 2,889 likely superflares on 2,527 sunlike stars. That works out to ...

The fracture is likely caused by a pulsar that smashed into G359.13 at a speed between one million and two million miles per ...

If dark energy is weakening, as suggested by recent results, then the cosmos is far stranger than most physicists had ...

SETI’s senior astronomer explains how colossal artifacts could be the key to finding extraterrestrial life, past or present.

A brilliant flash from deep space once baffled scientists. But now, that mystery has been solved—and it reshapes what we know ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have found an extremely ancient galaxy piercing through a thick blanket of ...

A new study suggests the extinction of Neanderthals nearly coincided with a shift in Earth's magnetic field that let more ...

( NewsNation) — Research from the University of Michigan shows that ancient Homo sapiens may have benefitted from the use of ...