The search for evidence of what happened during the universe’s first instants — and a long-sought confirmation of the theory ...

Crossing the Milky Way sounds like science fiction, but the real physics are crushing. Even at the speed of light, the galaxy ...

One of the most beautiful and bright meteor showers of the year is set to peak, and Western North Carolina stargazers should have a spectacular view.

Some physicists compare the Planck length—the smallest meaningful scale we know—to tiny “pixels” that could form the fabric ...

Skywatchers, get ready — one of the year's most beautiful meteor showers is back and set to light up the October night sky.

Dark matter isn’t the universe’s only “missing” matter. Distant bursts of radio waves have now turned up vast, faint gas ...

Astronomers found evidence of two supermassive black holes in Mrk 501 that may orbit each other every 121 days and could merge in roughly 100 years.

At a distance of about 12.000 light-years from Earth, in a part of the Milky Way clouded by interstellar dust, astronomers ...

Black hole IRAS 18293-0941 fires a plasma jet toward Earth at 75% light speed, but at 12,000 light-years away, it poses zero threat.

When we look at the night sky, we see stars, planets and the pale band of the Milky Way. For centuries, astronomers studied ...

Scientists think they have discovered an entirely new type of object in space – and it’s spat something radioactive right at ...

A University of Missouri astronomer is leading a team of 130 researchers from 62 institutions—including NASA, the California ...