A remarkably clean gravitational-wave detection has confirmed long-standing predictions about black holes, including ...

When two black holes slam together, they do not simply vanish into darkness, they ring like struck bells and briefly light up ...

At the world’s most powerful colliders, physicists are finally catching sight of particles that almost never leave a trace, a ...

Millions of pieces of debris now circle Earth in space. Scientists are exploring new ways to remove them and protect future ...

Trident Technical College astronomy professor Blake Crosby has a gift for translating complex science into fascinating conversation. He kindly agreed to answer imaginative questions about cosmic myste ...

The Boston area lost several luminaries in 2025, but their contributions won’t soon be forgotten. From Kitty Dukakis’s ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of international researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of gigantic ...

Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have helped uncover new clues about the longest-lasting cosmic ...

Astronomers have spotted the longest gamma-ray burst ever seen, a cosmic explosion that lasted seven hours — and they ...

Scientists detect a 20-day wobble from a star-shredding black hole, confirming spacetime twisting predicted by Einstein.

Matney, a planetary scientist, suggests the "star" might have been a comet that came extremely close to Earth over 2,000 ...

A mysterious star described in ancient texts continues to puzzle experts, as new research offers a fresh explanation for the ...