Science is a story of coming up with theories then doing our best to disprove them. That is especially true for theories on a ...

In a recent piece for my column The Universe, I wrote about the biggest black holes in the cosmos. Black holes are rather ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered mysterious “little red dots” that may not be galaxies at all, but a whole new type of object: black hole stars. These fiery spheres, ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole ...

One of the biggest obstacles on the road to a low-carbon energy future is caused by the rare-earth element lithium, a ...

Astronomers at Penn State have nicknamed the objects “universe breakers,” which may be unusual black hole atmospheres and could represent a missing link in the fast growth of supermassive black holes.

Scientists use quantum many-body data and machine learning to boost density functional theory accuracy for chemistry and ...

Dark dwarfs may sound like fiction (specifically, a new concept coined by Amazon's series The Rings of Power), but a team led ...

A shopkeeping puzzle game that's even denser and more satisfying to master than its predecessor, Strange Horticulture.

Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these galactic gluttons ...

The “silent disease” called osteoporosis is a bone-weakening process that strikes many women after menopause. As estrogen ...

Throughout the world, cars are, of course, a mode of transportation, but they can also symbolize a number of things like ...