After a century of observations spanning the breadth of the cosmos and theoretical insights that push humanity's vision of ...

In a groundbreaking study published inNature Astronomy, astronomers have identified the lowest-mass dark object ever ...

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On human timescales, the universe may as well be eternal. It’ll be here long after our species and our planet are gone, but ...

Explore the universe with multi-messenger astronomy, combining light, gravitational waves, neutrinos, and cosmic rays for a complete view.

ORCs are vast, faint rings of radio energy that surround galaxies and can be detected only in radio wavelengths of the ...

The story begins with the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, anything that falls into a black hole is ...

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of ...

Using a global network of telescopes, astronomers have detected the lowest-mass dark object yet found in the universe.

Even before the first stars lit up the Universe, the Cosmos was not the cold place most researchers once imagined. New ...

A mysterious object with a mass equivalent to 1 million suns has been detected in space, but its nature remains unknown.

The discovery led to the realization that the universe is expanding, and that it must have had a beginning: the Big Bang. “Hubble is known as a titan in astronomy, especially American astronomy,” says ...