NASA has announced the discovery of a peculiar celestial object named CWISE J1249, which challenges existing classifications ...

Some 200 light years from Earth, the core of a dead star is circling a larger star in a macabre cosmic dance. The dead star ...

NASA has discovered CWISE J1249, a mysterious red celestial object moving at over one million miles per hour through the ...

NASA has an audacious plan to save a space telescope by using a rocket launched midair from a former passenger airliner.

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A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a first of its kind: a crisp mid-infrared image of a system of four ...

For years, we’ve been told that black holes are the ultimate cosmic vacuum cleaners. Once something crosses its event horizon ...

Funding uncertainties are pushing U.S. space scientists out of the field and putting existing and future space missions on the chopping block.

Black holes are some of the most fascinating phenomena in the cosmos. When you hear the word ‘black hole’, you feel intrigued. It seems like a synonym of darkness, mystery, oblivion, a space from ...