You might think galaxies can’t ever find each other in our runaway cosmos, but it turns out gravity can sometimes overcome ...

A vast, flat sheet of dark matter may solve the long-standing mystery of why our neighboring galaxy Andromeda is speeding ...

Neutron stars are the crushed remains of massive stars, packed into spheres only a few miles across—but heavier than the Sun. Their density is so extreme that a single teaspoon of neutron-star matter ...

Humanity has reached the Moon, photographed black holes, and looked back to the birth of the universe — yet massive gaps ...

Students dive into the mysteries of the universe to uncover the grit driving the Shaw Laureates 2025 in astronomy.

The famed collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory has ended operations, but if all goes to plan, a new collider will rise ...

Ancient evidence suggests a new twist in how we all got here.

A 10-second flash from deep space just rewrote what we thought we knew about the early universe.

Nikola Tesla held a striking belief about how ideas reach the human mind. His thinking challenges creativity itself and hints ...

Scientists say a jet from a previously studied supermassive black hole has grown brighter, becoming one of the most energetic events in the universe.

The Milky may not have a supermassive black hole at its centre, scientists claim. Until now, it has been widely believed that ...

Physicists have long believed that detecting the particle of gravity—the graviton—was fundamentally impossible, with the universe itself seeming to block every direct ...