Two bright meteors were caught slamming into the moon on Thursday (Oct. 30) and Saturday (Nov. 1), by Japanese astronomer ...

For the first time, NASA Chandra X-ray telescope has been used to discover a pair of black holes in dwarf galaxies that are ...

But most of the gold on Earth isn’t in our hands; it’s deep underground. During the planet’s formation, heavy elements like ...

We measure the “warmness” of the dark matter, i.e. the comoving root-mean-square thermal velocity v hrms (1) , with nearly 3000 spiral galaxy rotation curves in the ...

The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, ...

Astronomers caught a rogue black hole tearing apart a star 2,600 light-years from its galaxy’s center — a first-of-its-kind ...

A newly formed black hole, GW190412, was captured fleeing at 180,000 km/h; scientists track its entire cosmic trajectory for the first time.

Two recently observed black hole mergers, occurring just weeks apart in late 2024, have opened an extraordinary new window ...

For the first time, scientists have the calculations and simulations to explain mysterious flashes from the galaxy OJ 287.

For the first time, scientists have the calculations and simulations to explain mysterious flashes from the galaxy OJ 287.

For decades, astronomers have been vying to identify a source for a mysterious gamma-ray excess at the center of the Milky ...