Astronomers have tracked a powerful blast of radiation back to its source, finding a neutron star collision within colliding galaxies.

If you look eastward at the same hour for two nights in a row, you’ll find that the stars seem to be in the same place. But ...

Billions of light years away in a remote part of the universe, two neutron stars – the ultradense remnants of dead stars – collided. The catastropic cosmic event sent light and particles, including a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope peered into a young star cluster called Pismis 24, which is one of the closest clusters of new massive stars to Earth. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Alyssa Pagan ...

You might think the space between stars is completely empty, but it’s actually packed with way more stuff than you’d expect. While most of it just whizzes right past us here on Earth (if we’re lucky), ...