Bulging waves: artist’s impression of the gravitational waves given off by the merger of two supermassive black holes. ESA’s LISA space mission may be able to detect evidence of tidal distortions in ...

A new cosmic crime scene reconstruction tells the full story of a star ripped apart by a ravenous black hole, revealing a previously unknown aspect of these tidal disruption events. When you purchase ...

So the bottom line is that the gravity of the closer tidal bulge on the Earth is pulling the Moon forward, which increases ...

Long ago, the Moon was much nearer Earth. Scientists believe a protoplanet collision created the Moon 4.5 billion years ago.

Data from a seismometer in northern Chile has been used to analyse annual and daily stress cycles in the Earth's crust (Courtesy: C Sens-Schönfelder/GFZ) The mechanical stresses induced in natural ...

We’ve never seen a TDE in the Milky Way, but we’ve seen them in distant galaxies. If you track the motion of individual stars in the ultra-dense star cluster at the very center of the Milky Way you’ll ...

Scientists have calculated the speed of a spinning supermassive black hole by studying the 'spaghettified' remains of a star it destroyed. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

New measurements have revealed that Jupiter — the largest planet in our solar system — is actually smaller and more flattened ...

But in reality, it may be the beginning of a new phase of life for all the objects living in the solar system. When stars like the sun die, they go through a phase of rapid expansion called the Red ...

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star ventures too close to a supermassive black hole and is gravitationally torn apart by tidal forces. The resulting stellar debris forms an accretion disc ...