The small and rocky lava world sheds an amount of material equivalent to the mass of Mount Everest every 30.5 hours.

Observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope help to explain the cluster’s mysterious starburst, usually only seen in younger galaxies.

Researchers characterize the peculiar Einstein Probe transient EP240408a.

Their source could be the core of a dead star that’s teetering at the black hole’s edge, MIT astronomers report.

The fleeting cosmic firework likely emerged from the turbulent magnetosphere around a far-off neutron star.

New work suggests the ability to create fractionalized electrons known as non-Abelian anyons without a magnetic field, opening new possibilities for basic research and future applications.

System observed 8,000 light-years away may be the first direct evidence of “gentle” black hole formation.

The quasars appear to have few cosmic neighbors, raising questions about how they first emerged more than 13 billion years ago.

In the universe’s first billion years, this brief and mysterious force could have produced more bright galaxies than theory predicts.

The planet’s wild orbit offers clues to how such large, hot planets take shape.