In 1992, three physicists began an argument about how many numbers we need to fully describe the universe. Their surprisingly ...

Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these galactic gluttons ...

The bright outflow jets of J0529 are being fed by a process called Super-Eddington Accretion, where an object exceeds its ...

Discovery: An international team has discovered a dark object in the distant universe that has one million times the mass of ...

Astronomers are using radio pulses from space to find missing baryonic matter and learn about supermassive black holes, stellar formation and galaxy evolution.

Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...

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A mysterious space object named 2023 KQ14, nicknamed “Ammonite,” challenges theories about the mysterious and possible Planet ...

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

It's the ultimate longevity workout. If you’ve ever climbed stairs, carried a heavy object, hiked up a mountain, played tug ...

A study looking at ancient texts may have found evidence of a galactic supernova in a poem praising Saladin, the first sultan of Egypt and Syria, written between December 1181 and May 1182 CE. The ...

Ever since the world was formed more than four billion years ago, it has seen a number of mass extinctions that have almost ...