Most people know that black holes are kind of scary. Admittedly, that's true, but black holes are so much more than that.

Einstein believed that black holes didn't really exist. But they do: that much we know. We don't know much else about them.

We all know that black holes can devour stars, rip them apart and consume their remnants. But that only happens if a star ...

Indian astronomers have observed an X-ray binary system designated SXP 138. Results of the NuSTAR observations, published ...

A dramatic cosmic event is winding up to occur right in our backyard. Astronomers have spotted a pair of stars bound for ...

Black holes are just one of myriad marvels in outer space. In this feature, learn the difference between pulsars and quasars, antimatter and dark matter, brown dwarfs and white dwarfs, and many ...

Type 1a supernovae are a special type of cosmic explosion. They occur when a white dwarf–the dense remnant core of a star–takes in too much mass. The former star then can’t withstand its own ...

They discovered a binary system containing an M dwarf star and a white dwarf, whose orbital period matches up with the period of the radio pulses. M dwarfs, also called red dwarfs, are low-mass ...