From meteor storms to exploding stars or supernovae, there are a myriad of rare or once-in-a-lifetime events that take place ...
New research explains why some black holes are missing, showing how exploding stars stop certain black holes from forming.
J. Colin Hill, an associate professor of physics, was awarded a New Horizons in Physics Prize by the Breakthrough Prize ...
A star's mass determines its entire life story, from how it shines to how it dies. For young stars shrouded in dust, getting ...
Radio measurements are revealing the true masses of young stars hidden in dust, helping explain how a star's mass shapes its ...
An international team of researchers - including experts at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) in the University of Toronto's ...
In popular imagination and in science fiction, black holes are places of intense gravity, kind of like cosmic vacuum cleaners ...
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is set to launch this coming September, has the potential to show us pockets ...
Dark matter and dark energy make up 95% of the universe. Humanity has never directly detected either. The Nancy Grace Roman ...
The universe is expanding, and after decades of work, astronomers still cannot agree on how fast. That disagreement, known as the Hubble tension, has only grown sharper in recent months as new data ...
When Japan’s Hitomi satellite trained its X-ray spectrometer on the Perseus Cluster in early 2016, it had just weeks to live.