China begins drilling a six-mile-deep scientific well named Shendi Take 1 to explore the depths of the Earth and its secrets.

Astronomers have observed a star wobbling in its orbit around a ravenous supermassive black hole that is ripping it apart and ...

Multimillion research to create the first ever 3D movies of black holes will combine pioneering expertise in black hole ...

An artist’s impression depicts the accretion disk surrounding a black hole, in which the inner region of the disk wobbles. In this context, the wobble refers to the orbit of material surrounding the ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

A pair of massive solar eruptions, known as coronal mass ejections, was detected on December 16 and is currently on a direct ...

Deep in the Arctic Circle, there’s a man-made hole that once earned the nickname “the entrance to hell.” The Kola Superdeep ...

Astronomers spotted a distant supermassive black hole launching record-speed winds after an intense X-ray flare, revealing ...

Dhruv Shenai discusses the vital role of critical minerals research in the transition to a more sustainable world ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been ...

The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.

Astronomers tracked a decade of dramatic changes in P13, a neutron star undergoing supercritical accretion. Its X-ray ...