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 search for quantum gravity is the next big step in physics, as researchers seek to unify the physics of the very small ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered that dark matter, the universe's most mysterious "stuff," obeys gravity on vast cosmological scales. This could help to dismiss the possibility of a fifth fundamental force ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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

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