The current generation of gravitational wave detectors could "hear" supernovas over 65 million light-years away, helping ...

The citizen science app, available in eight languages, uses public input to identify kilonovae, neutron star mergers that ...

In February 2016, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) confirmed they made the ...

Hunting for black holes sounds like the premise of a new Hollywood blockbuster, but at Vanderbilt University, Assistant Professor of Physics and ...

A stellar binary could explain the red supergiant's pattern of intermittent dimming, but not everyone is convinced.

The team added new limits to how dark matter could interact with the LIGO detector, boosting hopes for future runs.

Astronomers led by Song Wang from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have discovered an unusual celestial phenomenon, ...

The universe might not be as you think. Until recently, the Lambda Cold Dark Matter model seemed to have a lock on cosmology.

Astronomers from the National Central University in Taiwan have investigated an unusual superorbital period variation of an X ...

A warp drive that is functioning normally, and travelling at a constant velocity, does not emit any gravitational waves. When ...

Research suggests black holes may not exist as traditionally thought, with frozen stars potentially solving key paradoxes.

New research suggests that black holes may actually be "frozen stars," bizarre quantum objects that lack a singularity and an ...