A new NASA animation highlights the “super” in supermassive black holes. These monsters lurk in the centers of most big...
GJ 486 b is about 30% larger than the Earth and three times as massive, which means it is a...
If they exist, intermediate-mass black holes likely devour wayward stars like a messy toddler—taking a few bites and then flinging...
Scientists studying the supermassive black hole at the heart of the M87 galaxy have revealed the origins of the monster’s...
The search for radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations has yet to yield evidence of alien technological activity. Research carried out...
Once every 10,000 years or so, the center of a galaxy lights up as its supermassive black hole rips apart...
A team of Japanese astronomers used simultaneous ground-based and space-based observations to capture a more complete picture of a superflare...
Two massive touching stars in a neighboring galaxy are on course to become black holes that will eventually crash together,...
New research by University of Michigan astronomers presents the most detailed known images of the inner region of a planet-forming...
A Canadian-led research team has doubled the number of repeating fast radio bursts, adding 25 new ‘cosmic probes’. Fast radio...
The rare metal terbium has been found in an exoplanet’s atmosphere for the first time. The researchers at Lund University...
A weird asteroid has just gotten a little weirder. We have known for a while that asteroid 3200 Phaethon acts...
