The search for dark matter requires all the best models, theories, and ideas we can throw at it. A new paper by Julia Monika ...

The universe will not last forever. In fact, scientists have revealed that its lifespan is almost half over already.

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 ...

New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

Some physicists think our reality is a kind of cosmic hologram, with space, time, and gravity as manifestations of a ...

"Very massive stars are like the 'rock stars' of the universe — they are powerful, and they live fast and die young." ...

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

"We would need to consider the possibility that the source was created (or trapped as a primordial black hole) by a highly ...

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

A new quantum recipe for black holes could be the first step toward a theory of "quantum gravity", the "holy grail" of ...

Could the Universe have been born inside a black hole? This question, raised by a team of scientists, challenges the Big Bang ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory provides a new look at the Andromeda galaxy in this multi-wavelength image that includes ...