The spacecraft, no heavier than a gram and propelled to a third of the speed of light by lasers on Earth, would gather ...

An astrophysicist argues that the interstellar mission would be extremely challenging but not completely unrealistic ...

A visionary plan proposes sending a paperclip-sized spacecraft, powered by Earth-based lasers, to a nearby black hole within ...

For a spacecraft like that to reach a black hole in such a relatively short time, there would have to be a black hole 20-25 ...

About 5 billion light-years away from where you're sitting, in one of the most massive galaxies on record, there exists an ...

In a paper published in the journal iScience, Bambi lays out a plan to turn such a deep-space mission into reality. If ...

Violent black hole collisions may create black hole 'morsels' no larger than an asteroid — and these bizarre objects could ...

A bold new proposal envisions launching laser-propelled nanocraft to a nearby black hole to test Albert Einstein's theory of ...

It sounds like science fiction: a spacecraft, no heavier than a paperclip, propelled by a laser beam and hurtling through ...

The Webb telescope found that a far-off little red dot is the oldest known black hole, shrouded by gas that could help explain the ruby color.

It took place some 750 million light-years away, flaring into the detectors of the Zwicky Transient Facility on 7 July. At ...

Astronomers have discovered what may be a massive star exploding while trying to swallow a black hole companion, offering an ...