Learn about the closest black hole from Earth, Gaia BH1. This recently discovered black hole is dormant, but it’s only 1,600 ...

After surviving the Kosovo War and witnessing her first solar eclipse as a child, UC Santa Cruz astronomy Ph.D. student ...

A new study suggests mysterious water worlds may be manufacturing their own oceans through chemical reactions deep within ...

Shklovsky’s article soon expanded into a widely popular book called “ Universe, Life, Intelligence ,” published in 1962. That same year, the USSR’s Academy of Sciences sent its first radio message in ...

Astronomers have observed the most powerful black hole flare ever recorded. This discovery offers unprecedented insights into ...

Using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomers from West Virginia University and elsewhere have observed two distant ...

The object, first detected in July, is only the third known interstellar comet ever observed. Its reemergence marks the first ...

Perihelion is the point on an orbital course that brings a body closest to the sun. C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) is an Oort cloud comet ...

A distant black hole has been caught releasing the brightest flare ever, which is the result of it ripping apart and ...

Astronomers have spotted the biggest flare ever seen erupting around a black hole, which also happens to be the most distant ...

Behind the Sun, the comet appears to show signs of acceleration beyond what is expected by gravity. And for reasons not yet ...

The interstellar object 3I/Atlas has left astronomers amazed after data revealed it follows the most stretched and unusual orbit ever measured ...