As humans travel out into the solar system, learning to use the local resources is critical for sustaining life off Earth, starting at the nearby Moon. NASA plans to prioritize the fission reactor as ...

We have found the first evidence of rapid X-ray flickering, repeating nearly 70 times per second,' says Santabrata Das ...

The team, including those from Haifa University, Israel, observed the X-ray brightness from the black hole GRS 1915+105, ...

A team of astronomers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO), part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has found ...

The discovery, made using India’s multi-wavelength space observatory AstroSat has been published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and is being hailed as a breakthrough in black ...

Outer space has emerged as the world's next battlefield, demonstrated by recent cyberattacks on satellites blamed on Russia.

Nestled within a tiny red galaxy, it dates back 13 billion years -- just 500 million years before the Big Bang -- and shows ...

With the help of AI, scientists from the CfA and MIT working within the Young Supernova Experiment uncovered evidence of a star’s violent collapse while interacting with a black hole.

A black hole’s bizarre "heartbeat" is forcing astronomers to reconsider how these cosmic heavyweights behave.

The simplest explanation — that Punctum is an extreme example of something familiar — hasn’t been ruled out. A magnetar in an ...

Travel to the event horizon in this amazing new black hole visualization from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: ...

They wouldn’t last for long, but the emissions from tiny black hole buds could light the way to quantum gravity.