Black holes exert a tremendous influence on their surroundings, meaning that when they spin, they literally drag the very fabric of space and time around with them. That means nothing can sit still ...

Astronomers have spotted pure chaos lurking in the cosmos. Thousands of light years away from Earth, a small yet intensely ...

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times ...

That translates to about 42,960 revolutions per minute. That means this neutron star spins 61,902,017 times faster than Earth ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from ...

Gas swirling around black holes forms disks that are among the most effective energy converters in the universe, emitting ...

Neutron stars represent one of the final evolutionary stages of a massive star, forming when stars with at least eight times ...

This list of commonly confused terms in astronomy will help you better understand the cosmos and the common phenomena we see in the sky.

Astronomers discover a neutron star spinning 716 times per second, making it one of the fastest stars ever recorded.

Astronomers have scoured decades-old data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, finding bright, lumpy features dotting a jet of energy spit out by a nearby ... and dust roughly 12 million light-years ...

The neutron star 4U 1820-30 is one of the fastest spinning bodies in the universe, spinning at 716 times a second and ...

FERC kiboshed a bid to increase the amount of power that a nuclear plant in Pennsylvania is allowed to supply to one of ...