Scroll through TikTok, browse dating profiles or sit at a cafe, and you’ll often hear people reference their astrological sign. Someone might proudly claim their Leo energy; others joke that they ...

The winning image of the core of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) was captured using a long focal-length telescope at the AstroCamp Observatory in Nerpio, southern Spain, where clear skies and an absence of ...

For scientists, learning more about how black holes behave is essential to understanding how the universe works. A recent ...

On February 13, 2023, the sky across France and England was briefly illuminated by a small meteor burning. It was slightly ...

Imagine you're going down a long waterslide. You've been traveling through it enjoying every moment despite occasional bumps on the way. You know the end will eventually come, but you don't know when, ...

Astronomers at Penn State have nicknamed the objects “universe breakers,” which may be unusual black hole atmospheres and could represent a missing link in the fast growth of supermassive black holes.

Part way through the spring semester, German literary and cultural scholar Birgit Tautz headed to Humboldt University in ...

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, with a substantial contribution from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR), has unveiled new, detailed images of the supermassive black ...

Scientists have captured the clearest signal yet of a black hole collision, confirming Stephen Hawking's theory.

A new paper published in Physical Review D in September, by Frieman and Anowar Shajib, a NASA Hubble Fellowship Program Einstein Fellow in Astronomy and Astrophysics, combines current data from a ...

Scientists have discovered what's thought to be the oldest known mummies in the world in southeastern Asia dating back up to ...

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