Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers discovered an extreme version of "little red dots" dubbed "The Cliff." Its ...

Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and ...

Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...

Take a journey to 89 million light-years away from Earth to the NGC 7727 galaxy. It harbors the closest pair of supermassive black holes discovered yet. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada ; N. Risinger (skysurvey ...

A tiny particle that smashed into Earth with a record-shattering energy of 220 petaelectronvolts could be the last scream of ...

Researchers think a mysterious signal, dubbed GW190521, could have arrived from a parallel universe after passing through a ...

A high-energy neutrino may have come from a black hole explosion, hinting at Hawking radiation and dark matter clues.

Event Horizon Telescope data reveal the magnetic field around M87* shifted, weakened and then flipped, defying theoretical expectations.

Astronomers are trying to determine what caused a series of gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe, to occur in a single day.

Located 12.8 billion light-years away, the black hole, called RACS J0320-35, weighs about a billion times the mass of our sun ...

Scientists have warned that there are high odds that a black hole in solar system might explode within the next decade.A ...

Scott Detrow talks to Lulu Miller, the host of Radiolab's Terrestrials podcast, about her conversation with the scientist Wanda Diaz-Merced, who studies gravitational waves that ripple through ...