Astrophysics

What if planets orbit a black hole the same way they orbit stars? According to Phys.Org, that is precisely the question that...

A cataclysmic gamma-ray burst rocked a galaxy 5 billion light-years away, ripping through time and space to light up telescopes around...

Five million years ago the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy ejected a bright blue star – now, it’s 29,000...

Is it chicken or is it fish? While some of us may never unravel the existential mysteries of Starkist canned tuna, according to early...

Rockets as we know them leverage Newton's third law: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. As propellent combusts...

Yesterday NASA released a breathtaking new visualization of a black hole in motion.“Until very recently, these visualizations were...

Well, that was unexpected.Nobody had any idea that there is a halo of cool gas circling the black hole at the center of our galaxy...

Two young exoplanets have been directly imaged cutting a swath through the protoplanetary disc surrounding a newborn star, according...

A recent NASA Hubble photograph reveals that the Messier 90 galaxy is headed our way, according to reports. This is a rare thing...

A team of engineers from NASA and MIT have designed, built, and tested a new type of aircraft wing constructed from thousands of...

Were it not for Reddit – and the tendency of its visitors to repost ancient video in search of sweet, sweet karma points – many of...

A team of astronomers using data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a pair of gigantic...

Before you get too excited: none of us will be alive to witness this, so you'll have to use your imagination to picture what it would...

On the heels of the recent claim that dark matter is really a kind of "dark fluid," a team of researchers published a new study that...

Astrophysicists at Durham University have some bad news for anyone who cares about the distant future of this galaxy. Based on the...

When considering models of the universe, there is one very important factor that researchers have struggled with: the presence of...

When reporting on Stephen Hawking's posthumous paper theorizing what happens to matter after falling into a black hole, New York...

Every few months, there seems to be a shocking new discovery or breakthrough theory that promises to finally lay bare the secrets of...

The nearest yet-discovered black holes are still thousands of light years away from Earth, so getting to one and seeing it with our...

Back in February, SpaceX and Elon Musk launched a 2008 Tesla Roadster and its "astronaut" (a mannequin named Starman) into space...