They show up as a mathematical solution in general relativity, basically as a time-reversed version of a black hole. Some ...

Researchers at The University of Manchester have developed a new way to design Earth-observation satellite missions that could help protect the space environment while continuing to deliver vital data ...

A neutron star’s teaspoon of material would weigh billions of tons. Venus rotates backwards compared to most planets. Space smells like seared steak, according to astronauts. There are more trees on ...

For nearly a century, astronomers have known that the universe is expanding. Most galaxies are carried outward with the flow ...

A vast, flat sheet of dark matter may solve the long-standing mystery of why our neighboring galaxy Andromeda is speeding ...

Deneb, Vega and Altair are among the brightest stars in the night sky. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news, the ...

A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow shock" as it zooms through the Milky Way. The cosmic zombie is also ripping ...

New research suggests that the x-ray light coming from the Milky Way’s central black hole Sagittarius A* has changed dramatically in the span of just a few hundred years Supermassive black holes are ...

Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee If you’ve seen illustrations or models of the solar system, maybe you noticed that all the planets orbit the Sun in ...

The Milky Way could be called “the Neutrino Way.” Its stars produce vast numbers of the subatomic particles. Now, scientists have calculated how many of them should be streaming down onto Earth from ...

They’re called ghost particles for a reason. They’re everywhere – trillions of them constantly stream through everything: our bodies, our planet, even the entire cosmos – without us noticing. These so ...

See that bright object in the sky? That’s Andromeda – the closest major galaxy to our Milky Way and the most distant thing you can see with the naked eye. And… it’s racing toward us at a rate of 110 ...