Scientists explain how rare bright blue cosmic flashes form when black holes tear apart massive stars, based on new observations of the event AT 2024wpp and similar fast blue optical transients ...

A rare red trail meteor zipped through Puerto Rico’s skies on Thursday evening, December 18.This footage, captured by Frankie Lucena in Cabo Rojo, shows a meteor streaking across the sky, leaving a ...

"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar explosion — or any other type of normal stellar explosion." ...

Imagine predicting an entire planet's existence with nothing but math, and then finding it right where the numbers ...

"Virgil has two personalities, its 'good' side – a typical young galaxy quietly forming stars. But Virgil transforms into the host of a heavily obscured supermassive black hole, pouring out immense ...

Colonial American astronomer John Winthrop was born on Dec. 19, 1714. After graduating at the top of his class from Harvard ...