Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

M87* is a supermassive black hole in a galaxy 55 million light-years away with a mass around 6.5 billion times the mass of ...

An artist's concept of a supermassive black hole, a surrounding disk of material falling towards the black hole and a jet ...

For decades, black holes were thought to be invisible. Now, scientists have revealed how they look, using groundbreaking ...

Astronomers have used an X-ray spacecraft called XRISM to observe powerful winds blowing from a neutron star — the findings ...

NASA has partnered with Katalyst to prevent a $500 million observatory from re-entering Earth's atmosphere by deploying a ...

U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers, using data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, have discovered an early universe supermassive black hole ...

Astronomers first thought these red dots were ancient galaxies. They appeared unusually mature for their early universe age.

Event Horizon Telescope observations capture evolving polarization patterns around the supermassive black hole at the center ...

Astronomers have discovered something that shouldn't exist: a galaxy so jam-packed with stars that they smash into each other about once a month.

In 1978 Nasa announced 35 new astronauts for a new era of spaceflight – and six of them were women. Here's how the Space Shuttle programme chipped away at one of Nasa's blind spots.

Two college students, Snehadeep Kumar and Mohit Kumar Nayak, are building India’s first gamma-ray detecting CubeSat via their ...