In the 17th century, astronomers Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini trained their telescopes on Saturn and uncovered a startling truth:...
Strong Northern Lights-like activity is the standout feature of today’s weather report, which is coming at you from a strange,...
Gravitational-wave detection technology is poised to make a big leap forward thanks to an instrumentation advance led by physicist Jonathan...
University of Warwick astronomers have uncovered the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being consumed by a white...
A black hole is growing at one of the fastest rates ever recorded, according to a team of astronomers. This...
A new class of supermassive black holes embedded in a thick gas shell could explain small red dots in images...
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the brightest explosions in the universe. In just a few seconds, they can outshine all the...
Scientists first detected ripples in space known as gravitational waves from the merger of two black holes in September 2015....
In a distant galaxy called Makani, particles of dust were warmed by the light of newborn stars before being flung...
The Sun will someday die. This will happen when it runs out of hydrogen fuel in its core and can...
Clues about how worlds like Earth may have formed have been found buried at the heart of a spectacular “cosmic...
Scientists have devised a new method for mapping the spottiness of distant stars by using observations from NASA missions of...
