Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. In ...

Astronomers have decoded the hidden past of a distant red giant star by listening to tiny vibrations in its light, revealing ...

2025 was another big year for black holes, and here's our pick of the top black hole stories from the last twelve months.

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

When black holes collide, the impact radiates into space like the sound of a bell in the form of gravitational waves. But ...

Astronomers analyzing data from an array of telescopes — including the W. M. Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea on the Big ...

An internationally-recognised expert on black hole astrophysics, Sera Markoff, has become the first woman to be appointed as ...

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

One of the greatest mysteries the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was developed to investigate was the birth of ...

Still, the first gravitationally lensed gravitational wave event is fascinating. The team estimates that if it truly was a ...

Using Georgia State’s CHARA Array, an international team of scientists has uncovered unexpected complexity in how stars ...

One story rose above all the others — new and older telescopes are putting us on the cusp of monumental discoveries about our universe.