Scientists suspect that a rapidly spinning, highly magnetic neutron star, or "pulsar," dwells at the heart of the Milky Way.

SpaceX has pursued its founder’s dream of reaching Mars for decades, but now that Elon Musk has shifted the company’s focus to the Moon, another aerospace firm appears prepared to take the lead in the ...

They show up as a mathematical solution in general relativity, basically as a time-reversed version of a black hole. Some ...

Helion’s Polaris prototype has become the first privately funded machine to demonstrate clearly measurable deuterium–tritium ...

Scientists watched as a star, once one of the brightest in the Andromeda galaxy, simply winked out of existence. They have a ...

A neutron star’s teaspoon of material would weigh billions of tons. Venus rotates backwards compared to most planets. Space smells like seared steak, according to astronauts. There are more trees on ...

"This provides observational evidence of black hole formation in real time, suggests that many black holes may form without supernova ‌explosions and shows that stars with masses as low as about 13 ...

Researchers investigated how molten salts interact with reactor materials to solve the "blanket" challenge in magnetic confinement fusion.

For a mere moment after the Big Bang, no neutrons or protons are thought to have existed. These neutral and positively charged particles, respectively, make up the center of all atoms today. But ...

In prophetic words for today’s AI age, in 2014, he urged the Church and the political world to remember that human beings may ...

If the pulsar is confirmed, it could enable more precise measurements of the space-time around the galaxy’s central supermassive black hole ...

University of Chicago researchers have begun examining data collected by a device transported by a NASA balloon that flew ...