Photographer Michael Steven Harris is the Overall Winner of the South Downs National Park’s astrophotography competition. He ...

This is a massive star that exploded 35,000 years ago, and the deep-sky image just won an award – a first in the prestigious ...

Indian astronomer Kishalay De led study revealed one of the clearest cases of a massive star collapsing directly into a black hole without a supernova, based on NASA NEOWISE data.

The allegations have doubled in the “double-touching” curling controversy involving Team Canada at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Their research was guided by a prediction from the 1970s: if a star collapses directly into a black hole, it should briefly glow in infrared light as it sheds its outer layers and becomes wrapped in ...

In 2014, a NASA telescope observed that the infrared light emitted by a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy gradually grew brighter. The star glowed more intensely with infrared light for around ...

Edgecombe's performance was a timely reminder of the 20-year-old's value as a scorer in Philadelphia this season.

A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a ...

The team discovered the star by analyzing archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission. They used a prediction from the 1970s ...

A “disappearing” star in the Andromeda galaxy is the closest and best candidate for a newborn black hole that astronomers have ever seen ...

The formation of a black hole can be quite a violent event, with a massive dying star blowing up and some of its remnants ...

A massive star in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has simply disappeared. Some astronomers believe that it's collapsed in on ...