For one, falling into a black hole is easily the worst way to die. Halloween is a time to be haunted by ghosts, goblins and ghouls, but nothing in the …
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The Scariest Things in Outer Space
From black holes to unexplained phenomenons, here are the scariest and spookiest things going on in our universe
Just in time for Halloween, scientists have discovered something spooky and strange occurring at the edge of the solar system: The heliopause — the …
Dark nebulas could be home to obscured stars. The Small Sagittarius Star Cloud has nurseries filled with goblins. That sounds like an "Addams Family" …
"Thousands of stars that exist in this region disappear from view." This gloomy view of an iconic space dust structure is just the Halloween mood we …
A ghastly face with glowing eyes glares in deep space in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope (opens in new tab). The piercing "eyes" of this …
Distant X-rays may be the most direct evidence yet of the remains of a disintegrated planet colliding with the corpse of a star, a new study …
Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of Ask a Spaceman and Space Radio, and author of "How to Die in …
