It sounds like something from the plot of Interstellar, but this plan to beam precious data back to Earth—before it’s lost ...

Black holes may appear to be shaped like a doughnut, but the truth is more complicated than that, explain our readers ...

A distant black hole has just put on one of the brightest and most violent shows in the known universe, tearing apart a ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way has long looked quiet, a dim and seemingly dormant presence ...

"We're going to do it in three years, and we're going to do it for a ridiculously low price," Pete Klupar, executive director ...

Matt Damon is appearing as the lead actor in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, a film that is undoubtedly going to stir ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

New data from the James Webb Space Telescope supports the existence of a supermassive black hole moving at 2.2 million mph, leaving behind a trail of stars and gas, researchers report.

Astronomers have completed the most comprehensive census of active galactic nuclei (AGN) to date, providing the clearest ...

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...

The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), a joint mission between the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) ...

JWST peered at the glowing trail of stars left behind by a candidate runaway supermassive black hole deep in space, revealing ...