April 21 - 28 is International Dark Sky Week, a global celebration of the night sky during which like-minded organizations ...

This gas needs an enormous amount of energy to shine — more than normal stars can supply. The discovery, based on data from ...

A scientist from Tokyo Metropolitan University has solved the longstanding problem of a "dissonance" in gravitational waves emitted by ...

Very Large Telescope observations of the galaxy revealed that there was likely a “sudden awakening of the massive black hole ...

Astronomers confirm a wandering black hole in our galaxy’s Sagittarius region using Hubble and Gaia microlensing data.

Understanding the origin of heavy elements on the periodic table is one of the most challenging open problems in all of ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to revisit a misunderstood black hole thought to be gulping ...