The powerful merger, designated GW231123, produced an extremely large black hole about 225 times the mass of our Sun.

Space is full of mysteries, and while we’ve come a long way in understanding the cosmos, there are still a number of ...

At an exhibition in the heart of China's capital, Beijing, cosmic data becomes tangible art.

Scientists have used ultracold atoms to successfully demonstrate a novel method of particle acceleration that could unlock a ...

Two international teams zoned in on a potential answer to a decades-long mystery surrounding ephemeral cosmic X-rays.

Scientists have proposed Earth is in the middle of a huge void in space, potentially resolving the cosmic mystery known as ...

The universe is a vast and strange place, filled with astronomical phenomena that challenge everything we think we know about ...

Collaboration has obtained a high-precision cosmic-ray boron spectrum in the energy range of 10 GeV/n–8 TeV/n, and discovered ...

New observations support the idea that hot, diffuse threads of gas called cosmic filaments connect clusters of galaxies ...

Video shows fireball meteor explode in broad daylight. How rare is this cosmic phenomenon? Fireballs fall on the Earth every day—but the one that just streaked across the southeastern U.S. this ...

As the Vera C. Rubin Observatory surveys the night sky, astrophysicists expect to unlock the secrets of dark matter, dark energy and cosmic phenomena that go “bang!” ...