Astronomers have spotted a jaw-dropping collision between two neutron stars – and it may have produced gold and platinum. The discovery in a tiny, faraway galaxy is the first time this has been seen ...

HILO (HawaiiNewsNow) - What happens when two galaxies collide? A Hilo astronomer is helping answer that question and predict the future of the Milky Way. Dr. Pierre Martin and his team created an ...

More than 10,000 Starlink satellites currently orbit the Earth. We see them crawling across dark skies, no matter how remote our location, and streaking through images from research telescopes. SpaceX ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors, is undergoing a transformation visible from the southern hemisphere. This change is due to a ...

Discover the science behind the potential impact of Andromeda on Earth. This video explores the likelihood of a collision, the size of the Andromeda galaxy, and the timeline of its approach to our ...

The violent collision of two neutron stars hundreds of millions of years ago is providing Penn State scientists with new insights into how the universe’s heaviest elements were created. Gamma-ray ...

Most gamma-ray bursts—the brightest, most powerful explosions in the universe—are tracked back to the deaths of massive stars. But a new discovery suggests that such enormous explosions can come from ...

In a small New Mexico town called Piedmont, 66 of its 68 residents lay dead, their bodies seeming to fall right where they stood or sat — in their homes, at the store, in the street. Only two ...

A recently detected flash of energy appears to have emanated from the wreckage of colliding galaxies, according to an international team of astronomers led by Penn State scientists. The burst, known ...

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope, researchers pinpointed a short gamma-ray burst to a faint galaxy that appears to be part of a larger group of galaxies about 8.5 ...

"Milky Way season," when our galaxy's bright center is most visible, is now beginning in the Northern Hemisphere. The best time to see the Milky Way in the US is generally from March to September.