Despite significant scientific advancement over the last decades, the universe still finds new ways to surprise us. Every ...

Deep canyons in the Andes are the perfect location to catch the most energetic particles in the universe. Carlos Argüelles-Delgado reveals how these intergalactic envoys could help prove the quantum n ...

Supermassive black holes spiral towards each other in this simulation created by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center that shows how they glow in ultraviolet and X-ray light. The black holes are only 40 ...

Scientists have discovered that before black holes collide with neutron stars and merge, these extreme stellar remnants can swirl around each other in oval orbits rather than in c ...

Superluminous supernovas are the brightest stellar explosions in the universe. Astronomers may have found a mechanism that can trigger these events.

Astronomers have finally captured an image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Because black holes emit no light and appear extremely small from Earth, ...

A new image captured by the Very Large Telescope reveals stars and gas orbiting the "invisible giant" at the heart of our ...

Two Westchester County high school seniors have each earned $25,000 awards after being named finalists in one of the nation’s most prestigious science competitions. Jashvi Desai of Yorktown Heights ...

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 - ...

Jashvi Desai of Yorktown Heights and Khushi Karthikeyan of Ardsley were among the 40 finalists nationwide in the 2026 Regeneron Science Talent Search, a nationally recognized competition that honors ...

Scientists have uncovered the first robust evidence of a black hole and neutron star crashing together but orbiting in an ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), the image of this region is the largest ever produced by the observatory. The core of the Milky Way hosts a supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, ...