To understand the reason Jupiter currently looks the way it does, Kane and his graduate student Zhexing Li ran a dynamic computer simulation

In the vicinity of a black hole, space curves so much that light rays are deflected and may curve around them several times.

Newly discovered black holes in dwarf galaxies shed light on the origin of our galaxy's central supermassive black hole.

New research suggests an unseen ‘mirror world’ of particles might be the key to solving a major puzzle in cosmology – the Hubble constant.

A unique new instrument, coupled with a powerful telescope and a little help from nature, enables scientists to peer into galactic nurseries

New discovery opens the door for scientists to see ideas in action that were previously only understood in theory or represented in science.

The more humanity tries to do more with data, the more it’s evident that the most urgent questions won’t get answered easily.

Our galaxy is a giant ‘smoothie’ of blended stars and gas but a new study tells us where the components came from.

When tiny galaxies collide with bigger ones, the bigger galaxies can strip the smaller galaxies of their dark matter which we can’t see.

A team of German astronomers have discovered a strange new type of star covered in the by-product of helium burning.

A new study suggests the existence of a direct interaction between the elementary particles that make up the dark matter and ordinary matter

Researchers have confirmed that a possible microlensing event witnessed in 2011 was due to the presence of a rogue black hole.

Physicists looked at specific features of light to figure out the closest you can get to a black hole without having to prevent disaster.

Scientists found something unusual that releases a giant burst of energy 3 times an hour, and unlike anything astronomers have seen before.

In the chaos before the Big Bang cooled, a fraction of the quarks and gluons collided randomly to form short-lived "X" particles.

How many black holes are out there in the Universe? This is one of the most relevant and pressing questions in modern cosmology.

The Earth sits in a 1,000-light-year-wide void surrounded by thousands of young stars — but how did those stars form?

Evidence demonstrates a close connection between the fraction of organic matter buried in sediments and changes in supernovae occurrence.

Researchers have helped conduct a 16-year long experiment to challenge Einstein’s theory of general relativity.

Groundbreaking discoveries about gravitational waves, black holes, cosmic rays, neutrinos and other areas may soon become more frequent.