The rapidly spinning red giant star, a phase stellar bodies around the size of the sun enter when they exhaust their fuel for nuclear fusion, dwells in the binary system Gaia BH2. Located around 3,800 ...

Life on Earth didn't just need the right place, it needed the right time in cosmic history. This video reveals how our existence depended on a precise sequence of galactic events, from generations of ...

ESA's Gaia mission has discovered the closest and 2nd closest black holes to Earth found yet. In this animation, travel to ...

"If this turns out to be real, then it’s enormous." ...

Renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is perhaps best known for his podcast “Star Talk,” where he discusses covers various topics with scientists from around the world. He sat down with CBC News ...

Subtle variations in the star’s brightness suggest it once collided and merged with another star, an explosive event that ...

James Webb Space Telescope observes mid-infrared flare from Milky Way’s central black hole, Sagittarius A*, revealing flare evolution, synchrotron cooling, and magnetic field measurements.

A provocative theory is gaining new support today. Scientists suggest atom-sized black holes may move through Earth. These ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

California has no shortage of geological marvels, many tucked within one of the state’s national parks. But to view a fossilized, dry waterfall formed hundreds of thousands of years ago from an ...

In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...

Michigan State University astrophysicists are closing in on one of space science’s biggest mysteries: where the galaxy’s most ...