Applied physicists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have discovered a new way ...

A bright star in the Andromeda galaxy appears to have simply vanished. After a dramatic mid-infrared flare in 2014, the ...

In 2014, a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy began glowing brighter in infrared light, then slowly faded from view. Nearly a decade later, astronomers say they have identified the event as the ...

In the nearby Andromeda Galaxy, a massive star bright enough to stand out for years has gone dark. Not in a blaze of glory.

Imagine sprinting barefoot across a searing hot parking lot in midsummer. The ground blazes. The light dazzles and blinds ...

By Hashima Hasan How did a little girl born in India soon after its independence from the British Empire, become a program scientist ...

A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a ...

Astronomers have witnessed a rare cosmic event: a massive star that didn’t explode in a spectacular supernova, but instead ...

A star in the Andromeda galaxy ran out of nuclear fuel and collapsed into a black hole, without first violently exploding in a supernova. For the first time scientists have studied this process in ...

Hail showers could turn San Francisco and Oakland neighborhoods into a winter wonderland.

Though a 2024 report by the Pentagon found no evidence of an alien cover-up, the belief that the government is hiding aliens ...