Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these ...

In a recent piece for my column The Universe, I wrote about the biggest black holes in the cosmos. Black holes are rather ...

Loeb has also pointed out that the object’s highly unusual trajectory brings it suspiciously close to Jupiter, Mars, and ...

A new study has attempted to pin down the properties of interstellar comet 3I/Atlas, finding it is "anomalously massive" at around 33 billion tons.

The motion of 3I/ATLAS that helped trace its trajectory revealed a non-gravitational acceleration, which revealed the size of ...

“This milestone represents decades of cosmic exploration driven by NASA space telescopes — exploration that has completely ...

The formation of Mercury remains an unsolved mystery. The planet closest to the sun has a disproportionately large metallic ...

There’s something intriguing about the unknown, especially when it’s hurtling towards our solar system. Astronomers and scientists across the globe are currently tracking a mysterious object making ...

Schmitt, Joseph R., Agol, Eric, Deck, Katherine M., Rogers, Leslie A., Gazak, J. Zachary, Fischer, Debra A., Wang, Ji, Holman, Matthew J., Jek, Kian J., Margossian ...

We take our understanding of where we are for granted, until we lose it. When we get lost in nature or a new city, our eyes and brains kick into gear, seeking familiar objects that tell us where we ...

A decade after the first discovery, scientists have used these waves to find a unique merger, a massive binary system and a ...

The Kepler Warning System (KWS) is an emergency alerting device that provides 360-degree audio and visual alerts during hazardous events and safety threats, including tornadoes, lightning, earthquakes ...