On this day in 1995, Dr. Bernard Harris Jr. made history, stepping into the vastness of space and becoming the first African ...

Black holes can actively regulate the material they consume, using powerful jets of gas blasted into space, according to a ...

The passing gravitational waves “stretch or contract the universe by around 20 meters [about 65 feet] or so,” says Matthew ...

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, ...

A writing desk once used by Herbert Day for schoolwork is among local artifacts on display in an Ann Arbor museum’s new ...

The Black national anthem “Lift Every Voice and Sing” has sparked social media-fueled backlash in the lead-up to Sunday’s ...

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"This is the first solid evidence that helical magnetic fields can explain astrophysical jets at different scales." ...

An Altadena, Calif., resident came home after being displaced by the Eaton fire to find a large black bear still hanging out ...