We previously covered such “gravity telescopes” with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (KAGRA). These early 2 nd generation of ...

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

Astronomers have taken their clearest look yet at how some of the biggest stars in our galaxy are born—and it turns out the ...

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

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

A team of astronomers have found a mysterious object in the distant universe that could be dark matter or an inactive smaller ...

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

Using CO (J=1–0) molecular line data obtained from the 13.7-meter millimeter-wave telescope at the Purple Mountain ...

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of ...

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

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is rapidly approaching Earth, giving skywatchers an extremely rare opportunity to spot the sparkly ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have performed infrared observations of a planetary debris disk ...