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

James Webb Space Telescope confirms the first runaway supermassive black hole in the Cosmic Owl galaxy, observing its tail and bow shock, providing direct evidence of black hole ejection during galaxy ...

An ultramassive black hole so huge it could swallow 30 billion suns has emerged from the cosmic background, revealed not by ...

Scientists observed a spinning black hole dragging space and time as it tore apart a star, confirming a key prediction of Einstein’s theory of relativity ...

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

There are two small moons in orbit around Mars today, but both may be remnants of a much larger moon that had enough of a ...

JWST uncovers evidence of ancient “monster stars” whose extreme chemistry may explain the origins of early supermassive black ...

The 11th day of the 18th annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar features a new view of the heart of a nearby spiral galaxy.

A new ultramassive black hole has been discovered, and we’re not even going to try to get our heads around its scale. The ...

NASA’s Fermi telescope detected a record-breaking gamma-ray burst lasting nearly seven hours. The unusual, multi-pulse ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are some of the most perplexing phenomena in nature. Even though astronomers have detected about ...

A Charleston astronomy professor answers astronomy students' questions about worm holes, black holes, colonizing Mars, outer space's many strange odors and more, ...