Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

I’ve spent much of my long life studying — and trying to understand — the history of the universe. Along the way, I have been constantly reminded that science is essentially international: Science ...

New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

Scientists say that the construction of a vast new radio telescope array in the Utah desert — known as the Deep Synoptic ...

Astronomers from the University of Turku in Finland and elsewhere have performed a broadband spectral and timing study of an ...

"Very massive stars are like the 'rock stars' of the universe — they are powerful, and they live fast and die young." ...

Predicted by Einstein and dismissed as undetectable, gravitational waves were finally heard in 2016. Now, with observatories ...

A cataclysmic variable star was found as part of a project using two telescopes from opposite sides of the world.

Could the Universe have been born inside a black hole? This question, raised by a team of scientists, challenges the Big Bang ...

Under the right conditions, this collapse doesn’t end in a singularity — instead, it bounces and begins expanding again,” said University of Portsmouth professor Enrique Gaztañaga in a statement that ...

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...