Scientists say they have figured out the universe’s ‘death date’, when everything we see in the night sky will disappear ...

OUR universe is set to end far sooner than we thought – so if you planned on living forever, there’s bad news. Scientists ...

We have long taken it for granted that gravity is one of the basic forces of nature – one of the invisible threads that keeps ...

That's less than scientists previously thought, as it was predicted they would last for another 10 to the power of 1,100 ...

In terms of human lifespans, this is like having your prognosis of 50 years being cut down to less than a trillionth of a ...

Stunning stellar explosions occur every second across the cosmos – some observable, most too distant to ever know, all of ...

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, and it's not alone. There is also likely a forest of binary ...

Astronomers are unraveling the mystery behind Ansky, a black hole system emitting powerful, repeating X-ray bursts called ...

Scientists have puzzled over the origin of elements heavier than iron since the 1950s. Recently, LSU astrophysicist Eric ...

The gold you wear today may have landed on Earth billions of years ago... but that is far from the beginning of the metal’s ...

Astronomers have probed the physical environment of repeating X-ray outbursts near monster black holes thanks to data from NASA's NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) and other missions.

You might owe that gold necklace around your neck to a moody, long-dead star from the universe’s ancient past. According to a ...