Astronomers have used the LOFAR telescope array to create the largest radio survey of the cosmos, revealing 13.7 million ...

Scientists using the ALMA telescope have created the most-detailed-ever map of the Milky Way's chaotic center. The ...

A newly detected X-ray transient may reveal the first direct evidence of an intermediate-mass black hole consuming a white dwarf. A newly observed cosmic outburst is giving astronomers a rare glimpse ...

One of the largest known stars in the universe underwent a dramatic transformation in 2014, new research shows, and may be preparing to explode. A study led by Gonzalo Muñoz-Sanchez at the National ...

Deep inside the Milky Way, an invisible force is quietly holding everything together — its magnetic field. Now, researchers have created one of the most detailed maps ever of this hidden structure, ...

Gravitational lensing is a phenomenon caused by massive objects bending the fabric space-time around them due to the impact ...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

A bright star in a nearby galaxy has essentially vanished. Astronomers believe that it died and collapsed in on itself, transforming into the eerie cosmic phenomenon known as a black hole. "It used to ...

The star, named WOH G64, is 1500 times larger than the Sun.

JASPER COUNTY, Mo. (KOAM) — Multiple fire departments responded to a large commercial fire Friday afternoon, prompting road closures and a coordinated emergency response just outside Joplin city ...

Glowing clouds and hollowed bubbles mark an intense stellar nursery 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Indebetouw Hubble captures a dazzling stellar ...