Few of them would have resulted in as different a movie as Interstellar would have been if it were directed by Steven Spielberg — which very nearly happened. As it turns out, the greatest filmmaker of ...

Our readers agree that in the unlikely event you were able to approach a neutron star, it would look very smooth and bright ...

XRISM found a slow, thick wind from a neutron star, pointing to temperature as the key driver of cosmic wind behavior. The ...

Hubble’s latest image captures the dazzling spiral galaxy NGC 6000, lying 102 million light-years away in Scorpius. Its golden core and bright blue arms reveal a striking contrast between old, cool ...

They are smaller than a city yet heavier than the Sun. Neutron stars crush matter, twist space-time, and spin faster than anything else in the cosmos. They are proof that the universe has no limits to ...

In a recent breakthrough, the XRISM mission has uncovered a puzzling cosmic phenomenon—a slow, dense wind emanating from the ...

A Northwestern University-led team of astronomers has captured the most detailed glimpse yet of a doomed star before it ...

In a new study, a team of astronomers report that they have captured the most detailed glimpse yet of a red supergiant before ...

In September 2015, humanity heard the sound of the universe for the first time: gravitational waves predicted by Albert ...