In an article published in Physical Review Letters on Thursday, scientists carried out an innovative study testing the existence of mirror asymmetries in our universe by studying the handedness of the ...

Astronomers are very familiar with the twin jets launched from the poles of supermassive black holes. These structures can ...

The magnetic north pole’s rapid drift toward Siberia threatens navigation, technology, and wildlife, with potential ...

The stunning panorama features over 600 overlapping Hubble images that have been painstaking stitched together. Spread across 2.5 billion pixels, you'll find some 200 million stars ...

Panorama of Nearest Galaxy Unveils Hundreds of Millions of Stars On a crisp, clear autumn night, you can see the most distant object visible to the naked eye — the stunning Andromeda Galaxy, our Milky ...

Although they don't impact the surface directly, historical evidence and simulations suggest airbursts can pack a punch.

There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of ...

MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...

Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we have access to. It's also on the quiescent end of the activity scale, which ...

North Liberty’s best kept secret looks like a giant satellite dish nestled in a wooded area between North Liberty and ...

Using IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists identify hundreds of obscured black holes hidden behind gas and dust.