Professor Mark Hannam stated, 'These are the largest black holes we have confidently measured using gravitational waves.' ...

A U.S. gravitational wave detector spotted a collision between fast-spinning “forbidden” black holes that challenge physics ...

Macquarie University astronomers have tracked an extreme planet's orbital decay, confirming it is spiraling toward its star in a cosmic death dance that could end in three possible ways.

SCIENTISTS have discovered the biggest black hole merger ever recorded, as two massive spacetime ripples spiral into each ...

Researchers stitched together hundreds of images from the Very Large Telescope to form a breathtaking photo of a nearby ...

Using the TUBITAK National Observatory and ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers from the Istanbul University in Turkey and ...

The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of ...

Some planets seem to defy established rules. This is the case for hot Jupiters orbiting extremely close to their stars... in binary systems where two stars coexist. A new study proposes ...

Scientists have detected the largest black hole collision ever observed, resulting in a colossal binary black hole 240 times ...

Hubble’s crystal-clear look at NGC 1786—an ancient globular cluster tucked inside the Large Magellanic Cloud—pulls us 160,000 ...

While astronomers expect many supernova remnants remain to be discovered, the fact that Teleios was spotted at all “is pure luck,” Filipović says. Had it been located closer to the galactic plane, ...

Astronomers have been aware of cosmic vampires, dead stars that hungrily strip plasma from victim stars, for some time. New ...