If, for some reason, we as a society executed villains by firing them into the Sun, this is how an astronomers says we would ...

"The key result is that while many alternatives look very similar to the 'standard' black hole at today's image quality, the ...

First up, just pointing a rocket at the Sun and blasting as hard as you can would result in a wild miss. The main problem you ...

"Throwing a close companion into the mix could possibly wreak further havoc on the already complicated processes surrounding ...

Quasars acting as strong gravitational lenses are among the rarest finds in astronomy. Out of nearly 300,000 quasars ...

European scientists are turning an aircraft into a laboratory that simulates lunar gravity to prepare astronauts and ...

The universe is expanding. That much is clearer. But it’s less clear whether this expansion is accelerating or slowing down.

At the center of a galaxy 10 billion light-years away, a supermassive black hole is the new record holder for brightest flare ...

In a move that has electrified the scientific community, NASA will host a live event at 3 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Nov. 19, to ...

Astronomers recently detected a stray quasi-moon in our planet’s orbit, but it's hardly the first stowaway to hang out around ...

Sarah Wild talks to astronomers across the world who are on a hunt for a subtle hydrogen signal that could confirm or disprove our ideas on the universe’s evolution ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, recorded the moment a star’s explosion broke through its surface. The nearby supernova, ...