In November, scientists arrived at the South Pole in planes outfitted with skis to pull off a construction project seven years in the making.

Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar" won several awards, including an Oscar for Best Visual Effects. Which scientific ...

Particle never before seen on Earth detected; it could come from a primordial black hole and the origin of the universe.

Astronomers have confirmed the first isolated stellar-mass black hole drifting through the Milky Way, located roughly 5,000 ...

Some sci-fi movies take the genre extra seriously, using accurate technologies to ground their depiction of the future.

The KM3NeT collaboration is a large research group involved in the operation of a neutrino telescope network in the deep ...

An exotic type of dark matter could explain some of the characteristics of our galaxy’s central supermassive black hole, but ...

Observations of a distant quasar reveal that supermassive black holes may suppress star formation across intergalactic distances.

Another describes a long straight contrail cutting across a galaxy called NGC3627. This one is likely caused by a black hole ...

Intense radiation emitted by active supermassive black holes—thought to reside at the center of most, if not all, galaxies—can slow star growth not just in their host galaxy, but also in galaxies ...

Many of us remember all too well our childhood bout of chickenpox: those itchy, scabby, red spots that appeared all over our ...

All the “normal” matter, like the stars, gas, dust, and people, is called baryonic matter, and it’s basically the tiny visible fraction of a universe that’s mostly invisible and still not fully ...