For astronomers, finding a new black hole orbiting an aged red dwarf star is an exciting find in itself, but when that black hole seems to be a "missing link" stellar-mass black hole, you can crank ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

Astronomers study stars by looking at the different colors of light they emit—colors they capture and analyze using ...

We now know that black holes occur frequently throughout the universe. One Sagittarius A* sits at the center of our galaxy, ...

Although most potentially habitable worlds orbit red dwarf stars, we know larger and brighter stars can harbor life. One ...

Black holes are on a continuum of ultradense objects that form from the remnant cores of dead stars after they run out of ...

Across the sky, more than 100 stellar-mass black holes are hidden within a large cluster of stars. The star cluster is named ...

Lone Star Season 5 Episode 1, from rivalries to new jobs, the season premiere catches us up with the 126's changes. Our ...

In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has around 150 ...

Astrophysicists have uncovered a possible swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes hidden within a stellar cluster known as ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have confirmed that supermassive black holes can prevent star formation in ...

Autumn brings longer, cooler and clearer nights. Summer’s bright constellations and dense star clouds of the Milky Way give ...