A 15-year search reveals the first evidence of a cosmic 'gravitational wave background ... black holes billions of times more massive than the sun requires a detector much larger than the size of ...

It's a detailed image of our planet, against the inky black void of space ... Artemis I spacecraft took that shows both Earth and the Moon in the background. Orion took the snapshot around ...

The closest known black hole may have been found a cosmic stone’s throw from Earth, just 1500 light years away. Called Gaia BH1, it is estimated to be about 10 times the mass of our sun.

Astronomers have found the closest black hole yet at just 1000 light years from Earth, close enough to see the stars that orbit it without a telescope. Marianne Heida at the European Southern ...

Since leaving Earth on January 15, NASA's Blue Ghost lander has been sending back some stunning images of space. Now, the autonomous lander has captured a truly jaw-dropping view as it records a ...

Have you ever wondered what would happen if Earth got gobbled up by a black hole (apart from everybody dying, of course)? Now you can find out, thanks to the online Black Hole Collision Calculator.

Using 16 years of data from NASA's gamma-ray detecting Fermi spacecraft, astronomers have discovered that "microquasars," systems in which a black hole ... bombarding Earth. The mechanism for ...