Scientists believe the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and at least as many planets. The largest galaxy known, IC 1101, has more than 100 trillion stars. Step outside on a clear night and ...

At the beginning of the 21st century, science fiction became the genre that benefited most from the rapid development of ...

A team of scientists has developed a new model to study ‘very massive stars’ and their impact on the formation of black holes ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

These black holes are the most distant and stable objects we know. Using a technique called very long baseline interferometry ...

The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

Astronomers in Australia picked up a strange radio signal in June 2024 — one near our planet and so powerful that, for a ...

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

The US and China have reached a rare earth minerals agreement which could prevent a $34 billion black hole in the economy.

How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a camera so powerful it can see light from galaxies that formed more than 13 ...