From decades of astronomical observations scientists know that most galaxies contain massive black holes at their centers. The gas and dust falling ...

From decades of astronomical observations, scientists know that most galaxies contain massive black holes at their centers.

Using 20 years of data from the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have discovered that turbulent stars could be corrupting ...

An "intelligent" liquid that has baffled scientists due to its ability to "choose" its own path to solve a maze has finally ...

The current exoplanet census contains 5,832 confirmed candidates, with more than 7,500 still awaiting confirmation. Of those that have been confirmed, most have been gas giants ranging from ...

Imagine a distant world, light-years away, where intelligent beings scan the cosmos, searching for hints of life. If their ...

By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

Last summer, astronomer Calvin Leung was excited to analyze data from a newly built radio telescope. His goal was to pinpoint ...

Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...

Supermassive black holes can fuel their own growth by cooling and recycling gas, creating a continuous cycle of feeding and outbursts. The central regions of galaxy clusters host the universe’s ...