A black hole far from its galactic center has unleashed the fastest, brightest radio flares ever seen from a star’s ...

A new study may visually solve an enduring mystery about a bright object that's been studied since the 19th century ...

"This is truly extraordinary," Itai Sfaradi of the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement. "Never before ...

Astronomers have observed a supermassive black hole far from the center of a galaxy where it ought to be giving off bright ...

On July 2, 2025, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (Fermi-GBM) captured around three hours' worth of signals that appeared ...

After the astronaut sent the image of this skull to the scientists on Earth, they realized that the skull held a stunning ...

White House officials are directing NASA to carry out President Donald Trump’s proposed 24% budget cut even though Congress has not approved it, according to a new Democratic staff report. The report ...

We're on a black hole coverage roll this month, so here's another one: a supermassive black hole 12.8 billion lights years from us has been discovered feasting at a rate that scientists describe as "a ...

In a recent piece for my column The Universe, I wrote about the biggest black holes in the cosmos. These can tip the scales at many billions of times the sun’s mass, outweighing even entire galaxies.

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar was a phenomenon in 2014. Set in the future, Earth has been struck by a global crop blight. Former NASA pilot... Why 'Interstellar' has the most accurate black hole in ...

WASHINGTON — The White House has moved to eliminate employee unions at NASA, among other agencies, on national security grounds. In an Aug. 28 executive order, the White House said it was adding ...

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), has challenged our understanding of what happens to matter in the direct vicinity of a black hole. With ...