According to scientists, red supergiant stars should produce more supernovas. But astronomers just aren’t spotting them. Here ...

New research explains why some black holes are missing, showing how exploding stars stop certain black holes from forming.

By tracking individual stars and exploding supernovas, astronomers discovered the strength of early ultraviolet glow ...

In popular imagination and in science fiction, black holes are places of intense gravity, kind of like cosmic vacuum cleaners ...

Our sun is a roiling mass of energy, with solar flares exploding on its surface, sending gas, plasma, and light that blasts ...

A team of nuclear physicists has pulled off something that, until recently, existed only in theoretical models and the ...

Scientists have just managed to reproduce a nuclear reaction that had never been observed directly before. The experiment ...

Christopher W. Stubbs is an experimental physicist and Harvard professor of physics and astronomy. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. FM: You were the inaugural project scientist ...

An international team of researchers – including experts at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Voyager 1’s signal now takes nearly a full day to reach Earth as it pushes farther into the vast unknown of interstellar space. | ...

In an ancient dwarf galaxy on the outskirts of the Milky Way, astronomers have discovered one of the most chemically primitive stars ever seen. Named PicII-503, the star’s extreme lack of heavy ...

As America celebrates its 250th birthday, the spirit of exploration that once pushed pioneers across a continent is now ...