Astronomy

The fastest-moving star, S301, was discovered recently by Stefan Gillessen’s team at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial…

ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An illustration showing an exoplanet and two red stars. Astronomers have recently discovered a…

An international team of astrophysicists has found evidence that the universe recycles black holes, merging them to form…

Artistic representation of WASP-94A b, a gas giant in the Microscopium constellation. Clouds build as air flows over…

Nature abhors a vacuum, so the saying goes, but nobody told the universe. Space is filled with cosmic…

Microscopic black holes have long hovered at the edge of theory, forming only in exquisitely balanced states. Now…

(A) Dark matter distribution in our neighborhood in the Universe, the so-called Local Group of galaxies. The two…

A suspected meteor was spotted over parts of New South Wales last night. Streaks ranging from blue to…

A clear, dark night sky is becoming a protected resource, with growing light pollution erasing our views of…

Gravitational waves from colliding black holes may hold subtle clues about one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: dark…

NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could uncover one of the Milky Way’s biggest hidden populations: invisible…

As asteroid the size of a house will pass within just 57,000 miles (92,000 kilometers) of Earth today.…

The Fastest-Known Star Near the Milky Way’s Black Hole Has Been Spotted—Now It Could Help Test Einstein’s Theory of Gravity