Ever wondered what it would be like to live near a neutron star or inside a black hole? We’re ranking the most extreme ...

Scientists have found a quasar spewing a gigantic radio jet in space at a time in the early universe when such objects are ...

Astronomers discover an unusual neutron star that emits double pulses, challenging theories about stellar remnants.

Russian astronomers have conducted photometric observations of a unique extremely metal-poor luminous blue variable star ...

Astronomers have discovered two strange objects that could be young stars — except they're completely surrounded by ice.

Chinese astronomers have investigated quasar candidates from the DESI Legacy Surveys (DESI-LS) photometry catalog. As a ...

New research indicates that matter ejected during the supernova death of a star can fall back to neutrons stars, giving rise to mysterious "low-field magnetars." ...

Thorne-Żytkow objects that we haven't yet seen. There is, however, more to learn about these stars and the cosmos.

Stellar evolution is the process by which stars change over time, leading to the formation of various compact objects such as black holes and neutron stars. These compact objects often interact ...

When supermassive stars reach the end of their lives and explode in a supernova, the remnants form a super-dense object called a neutron star. Pulsars are neutron stars that spin rapidly ...

But astronomers routinely measure the speeds of stellar objects. How they do it, it turns out, is grounded in everyday experience. Ever noticed how the pitch of an ambulance's siren or a train's ...