China's Xu Mengtao retained her title in the women's freestyle skiing aerials at the Winter Olympics on Wednesday, bolstering ...

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The best minimal-light, unobstructed vantage points in New York City include the Hudson River Waterfront, the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, a high-floor rooftop and the Rockaways, according to Secret ...

An unusual tidal disruption event spotted by astronomers may be the result of an elusive intermediate mass black hole ripping apart a star.

Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have discovered a compact binary system consisting of two white dwarfs in the center of a nearby globular cluster designated NGC 6397. The finding was ...

Astronomers have reported one of the longest stellar dimming events ever recorded, with a Sun-like star fading by 97 percent for nearly 200 days. Astronomers believe one of the longest stellar dimming ...

In my January 23, 2026, “The Universe” column, I wrote about some of the biggest bangs the universe has to offer: exploding stars, hiccupping magnetars, stellar disruptions and colliding black holes.

Astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and elsewhere have used the Subaru Telescope to ...

Old-aged stellar distance indicators are present in all Galactic structures (halo, bulge, disk) and in galaxies of all Hubble types and, thus, are immensely powerful tools for understanding our ...

Houston, Texas-based Prosperity Bancshares will acquire Houston, Texas-based Stellar Bancorp to create a $54 billion asset bank. The deal is valued at approximately $2 billion and implies a share ...

Prosperity Bancshares agreed to acquire Stellar Bancorp in a deal valued at around $2 billion that would create the second-largest bank by deposits headquartered in Texas. Prosperity will issue 0.3803 ...