Joel Klatt had quite the comparison after watching Friday's Cotton Bowl between the No. 8 seeded Ohio State Buckeyes and No. 5 Texas. On the latest edition of "The Joel Klatt Show," he compared Ohio ...
The fastest-spinning white dwarf ever discovered is a shrinking cosmic vampire feasting on a stellar companion. A feeding ...
Scientists have discovered an exciting new way to uncover how stars are formed by studying their spectacular deaths. Using ...
Within seconds, the star is violently blown apart, hurling stellar debris into space at speeds thousands of times faster than the most powerful rocket ever built. This is a supernova explosion.
Sherwood Richers joined the UT faculty in 2023, where he is currently teaching courses in undergraduate astronomy and general ...
Observations of VFTS 243 provide evidence that black holes can form directly from the collapse of massive stars, without a ...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features the galaxy LEDA 22057, which is located about 650 million ...
Revised data shows G278.94+1.35, a supernova remnant, is closer to Earth at 3,300 light years with smaller dimensions ...