The Cartwheel lies about 500 million light-years away in Sculptor. Its wagon-wheel shape formed after a violent collision ...

How often do black holes explode? New research refines old calculations, hinting that black hole explosions may be a ...

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

A strange gamma ray burst has baffled scientists who do not know what it is. It is unlike anything they have ever recorded.

A decade ago, the first gravitational waves confirmed that black holes collide. Telescopes soon revealed shadows of giants ...

Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects in the universe. For decades, physicists believed their explosive deaths ...

"The speed at which this doomed stellar system is lurching wildly, likely due to the extreme brightness, is a frantic sign of ...

A discovery involving researchers at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has, for the first time, revealed millisecond ...

NGC 7456 may look like just another spiral galaxy, but it’s full of surprises. From vibrant star-forming regions glowing pink ...

SpaceX is moving forward with plans for another Starship launch on the heels of the last test Aug. 26 from its Starbase ...

Astronomers have used an X-ray spacecraft called XRISM to observe powerful winds blowing from a neutron star — the findings ...