The Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered a black hole growing at a record pace. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...

Webb has captured the haunting “Exposed Cranium” nebula—an otherworldly cloud shaped by a dying star that looks remarkably like a brain inside a skull.

The Gaia telescope spotted more than 6,000 sunlike stars, all of which appear to have migrated from the galaxy's center more ...

Researchers have uncovered evidence for our sun joining a mass migration of similar "twins" leaving the core regions of our galaxy, 4 to 6 billion years ago. The team created and studied an ...

New research suggests our Sun was part of a huge migration of Sun-like stars that moved away from the Milky Way’s center billions of years ago.

Deep canyons in the Andes are the perfect location to catch the most energetic particles in the universe. Carlos ...

Researchers say the "powerful engine" behind superluminous exploding stars had been hidden for years — until a "chirp" from the cosmos helped confirm their link.

A UC Santa Barbara graduate student alongside a local nonprofit research group have advanced the frontiers of physics while ...

Lead researcher Nathan Roth said the image shows the comet is “bursting with methanol in a way we just don’t usually see.” ...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has announced a 70% reduction of filming fees at the Griffith Observatory and the reopening of the interior of the L.A. Central Library.

A supernova - the explosion marking the end of a massive star's life - is one of the brightest cosmic events, usually about a billion times more luminous than the sun. But some - a small ​fraction - ...

The possibility that a huge space rock — once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed — could hit the moon now appears to ...