One of the biggest mysteries in science—dark energy—doesn’t actually exist, according to researchers looking to solve the riddle of how...
The missing ingredient for cooking up stars in the same way you might steam your Christmas pudding has been spotted...
Astronomers have discovered an important piece of the puzzle of how supermassive black holes were able to grow so quickly...
Just as some children physically resemble their parents, many scientists have long thought that developing planets should resemble the swirling...
After taking the first images of black holes, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is poised to reveal how black holes...
NGC 1068 is a well-known, relatively nearby, bright galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its center. Despite its status...
Could a decades-long debate about the mysterious movements of stars in Omega Centauri, the largest star cluster in the Milky...
Since 2018 the Zwicky Transient Facility, an international astronomical collaboration based at the Palomar Observatory in California, has scanned the...
The first dark comet—a celestial object that looks like an asteroid but moves through space like a comet—was reported less...
We have only one example of biology forming in the universe—life on Earth. But what if life can form in...
Astronomers have used the unique capabilities of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to peer closer than ever into the throat of...
We have only one example of biology forming in the universe – life on Earth. But what if life can...
