As if dark energy weren't already mysterious and baffling enough, new research suggests that this unknown force may not be ...

A peculiar object discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope just 700 million years after the Big Bang could reveal the ...

What would a human see and feel while falling into a black hole? In this exclusive excerpt of his new book, "Facing Infinity, ...

The only possibility left was an extraordinary one: a tidal disruption event, or TDE.

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...

The flare came from a supermassive black hole that’s 10 billion light years away, making the flash the most distant one observed so far. It hails from a time when the universe was rather young. A ...

Researchers at CERN may be on the verge of explaining the universe’s missing gamma rays and hidden magnetic fields.

The universe contains roughly 2 trillion galaxies and countless mysteries, including dark matter, supermassive black holes, the nature of time, and the absence of observable aliens.

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...

Dark energy and black holes are two of the most mysterious topics when it comes to space, but they might actually be linked.

A class of University of Texas astronomy students has discovered that nearby dwarf galaxy Segue-1 seems to host a ...

Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy ...