A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, ...

New details have been discovered about M87*, the first black hole ever photographed, revealing its plasma, its brightness and ...

A blue dwarf galaxy pitched through the bullseye's galactic neighborhood 50 million years ago, leaving behind nine glittering ...

An international team of researchers has found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive black holes in galaxies ...

Muslims and Jews, lesbians, George Floyd, Chinese people, and even the 2021 Oscars ceremony, which featured multiple non-white winners — the Spanish actress disparaged them all. Suddenly, the first ...

Black tones and shadows are essential ingredients for “low-key photography” where darkness contrasts with light to create ...

Rapid X-ray oscillations detected near the innermost orbit of a supermassive black hole could indicate the presence of a nearby orbiter such as a white dwarf ...