Neutron stars are some of the weirdest cosmic objects, and the greatest mysteries lie deep in their hearts.

Our own planet represents a tiny fraction of the peculiar phenomena that can be found lurking throughout the cosmos, and every day astronomers turn up new surprises. In this gallery, we take a look at ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, falling apart on cosmic scales. If you’re on the surface of Earth—and I’m ...

Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope now think the "little red dots" spotted in the early universe could be a new kind of space object. They call it a "black hole star." Credit: T.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist’s impression of a forming galaxy cluster in the early Universe: radio jets from active galaxies are embedded in a hot ...

Astronomers may have recorded the violent birth of one of the weirdest objects our Universe is capable of producing. In a bizarre gamma-ray space explosion whose light reached Earth in 2023, a team ...

Erika Hamden is an Ivy League-educated astrophysicist and the director of the University of Arizona Space Institute, so you can trust her when she tells you just how weird the universe is. Innumerable ...

Researchers have found what might be a little red dot transitioning into its final state, where x-rays burst through its gas cocoon. Others argue the object is nothing special ...