Although black hole radiation can be catastrophic in some cases, it may assist life once oxygen has accumulated in the planet’s atmosphere.

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. These powerful objects sometimes enter active galactic nucleus (AGN) mode, where they pull in gas and ...

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

When I get stressed, I look into the night sky and allow my mind to roam the infinity of space and time. It helps to get your ...

As astronomers peer through telescopes across the cosmos, dust clouds may distort the light from distant objects, altering observations.

Five 'mass extinctions' have decimated our planet since it was formed - now scientists claim the answers to two could be written in the stars.

After five years of staring unblinking at the sky, the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) has compiled the most detailed map ...

Two of Earth's largest mass extinction events were likely triggered by the fallout from two supernovae in nearby space. This ...

Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some ...

Researchers propose that our universe rotates inside a black hole, raising new questions about cosmology and the structure of ...