Could a lonely planet wander aimlessly through the restless galaxy change the subtle dance of gravity within our solar system ...

In May 2019, astronomers picked up something strange in the fabric of spacetime. The LIGO and Virgo detectors recorded a ...

If the thought of a supermassive black hole terrifies you, a new study may provide some relief. Scientists say that these galactic giants might not actually be as big as we thought.

Astronomers have witnessed a rare “extremely stripped supernova” that exposed the inner silicon layers of a dying star, confirming theories of stellar fusion and offering new insight into how ...

Researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have revealed for the first ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has recently captured extraordinary images of a rapidly collapsing star system in the Andromeda ...

Gravitational waves shake the very fabric of the universe when black holes collide. Today we measure these events and use them to understand the cosmos. Now University of Copenhagen researchers and ...

Most supermassive black holes lurk in the nuclei of galaxies, surrounded by stars and glowing with haloes of superhot matter, ...

Members of the 2007 Mets know a thing or two about what their present-day counterparts are going through. Eighteen years ago, the Mets held a seven-game division lead with 17 games to go, only to go 5 ...

A decade ago, the universe whispered, and humanity, for the first time, had the tools to listen. On September 14, 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) made history with ...

Four years after the Champlain Towers South collapse, federal investigators are honing in on the pool deck as the main cause. Matias J. Ocner [email protected] The catastrophe that unfolded at ...