Astrophysics

Stars fueled by the self-annihilation of dark matter might have been spotted for the first time by JWST

A trio of solar flares from a departing sunspot include one major flare that lasted several hours

Earth-based analogs are opening new frontiers in studies of the superdense interiors of neutron stars

Astronomers found two colliding galaxies dating back to less than 500 million years after the big bang

The disk of our galaxy was long thought to produce these ghostly high-energy particles, but they haven’t been detected until now

Astrophysicists are tuning in to a never-before-seen type of gravitational wave spawned by pairs of supermassive black holes

Astrophysicist Farhad Yusef-Zadeh has spent decades peering into the center of the Milky Way galaxy, discovering hundreds of enigmatic filaments in the process

Particle by particle, all matter may eventually disappear, according to new calculations

Researchers still hope to discover hundreds of new binary black hole mergers despite technical setbacks that have sidelined key detectors in Italy and Japan

After years of downtime for upgrades, the world’s premier gravitational-wave observatories are coming back online with big hopes for transformative discoveries

For at least three years, the mysterious blast has shined 10 times brighter than any supernova

Two SciAm editors duke it out to see if wormholes and multiverses could in fact exist.