The contest was held to mark the 10th anniversary of the park being named as an International Dark Sky Reserve.

The first three games of the new NBA All-Star format have produced high drama, with multiple game-winners and Kawhi Leonard scoring in bunches. The two US teams now play for the championship.

Ancient Light’ by Michael Harris was awarded the top prize at the South Downs annual astro-photography competition ...

The NBA All-Star Game is here with a new US vs. World format. Here are the rosters, time and how to watch the event with live updates.

A study of supernova remnant SNR 0519-69.0 using the Chandra X-ray telescope, Hubble and more has narrowed down its age to several hundred of years. The remnant is located in the "Large Magellanic ...

A massive star brightened in infrared light, then vanished without exploding. Astronomers uncovered the quiet birth of a ...

In A Nutshell A massive star in the Andromeda Galaxy faded by more than 10,000 times over a decade and vanished from view, likely collapsing into a black hole without exploding as a supernova ...

Their research was guided by a prediction from the 1970s: if a star collapses directly into a black hole, it should briefly glow in infrared light as it sheds its outer layers and becomes wrapped in ...

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

In 2014, a NASA telescope observed that the infrared light emitted by a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy gradually grew brighter. The star glowed more intensely with infrared light for around ...

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 ...

Using archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission along with data from other space and ground-based observatories, astronomers identified the clearest observational record yet of a massive star fading ...