Astronomers have witnessed something that no one believed possible: a black hole ripping apart a star not at the center of a ...

In an astonishing feat of gravitational sleuthing, astronomers have found a mysterious, dense blob of invisible matter ...

Tidal disruption events occur when a star strays too close to a massive black hole and is ripped apart by its gravity. In ...

For decades, astronomers have been awed by Saturn’s ring beauty. But a tiny, icy wanderer drifting between Saturn and Uranus ...

Scientists figured out that the universe is billions of years old — after years of reading ancient rocks and dying stars, and ...

Scientists may be coming closer to confirming the existence of dark matter - the invisible stuff thought to make up more than ...

The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able ...

For decades, astronomers have been puzzled by a faint but powerful glow of gamma rays shining from the center of our Milky ...

Astronomers used the ALMA radio array in Chile to show that two narrow spiral arms are funneling gas toward the central ...