It sounds like something from the plot of Interstellar, but this plan to beam precious data back to Earth—before it’s lost ...

A black hole has shredded a massive star like it was "preparing a snack for lunch," according to a team of scientists at the ...

Though this hunt came up empty, the fact that 3I/ATLAS is only the third known object found in the solar system after ...

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It is unclear whether a [3I/ATLAS] would transmit radio signals … such signals would take tens of thousands of years to cross ...

The black hole is located in galaxy QSO1, seemingly without any stars around it, which defies the long-held idea that black ...

Big hitter Peter F. Hamilton has a new sci-fi novel out this month – and Booker winner George Saunders ventures into ...

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar created a black hole that would later turn out to be fairly scientifically accurate.

It’s the greatest cosmic murder mystery of the year: How did a black hole destroy a star—and what kind of black hole is the culprit? Normally, so-called “gamma ray bursts,” sudden flashes of extremely ...

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

Far below the Pacific waves, nearly 6,560 feet down, a pale sponge on a thin stalk lives on a cold, dark slope. This new sponge was given the scientific name Advhena magnifica, which means ...

Something very significant has been happening in plain sight, and almost no one seems to be noticing. Over the past few years, there have been televised congressional hearings, repeated news segments ...