Unpredictable bursts of light are pulsing from the debris surrounding Sagittarius A*, offering new insights into the ...

"We're arguing that intelligent life may not require a series of lucky breaks to exist," said lead author Dan Mills of the ...

From star births to deaths and a party in a black hole, here are some of the reports we’ve been getting back from the ...

How black holes grow to monstrous scales is one of astronomy's prevailing enigmas. A new record-breaking dataset, which ...

Scientists using DESI discovered thousands of hidden black holes in dwarf galaxies, changing our understanding of space.

Gamma rays detected by NASA's Fermi spacecraft indicate that microquasars are powered by small black holes slowly devouring ...

Scientists observed constant flares from the Milky Way's black hole, revealing unpredictable and intense activity.

Using early data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a team of scientists have compiled the largest sample ...

John Kounios is a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Drexel University. He is co-author of The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain (Random House, 2015) and ...

In 1974, science fiction author Larry Niven wrote a murder mystery with an interesting premise: Could you kill a man with a ...

This breakthrough builds on more than a decade of research using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope, along with several powerful ground-based observatories.

Neutrinos are sometimes called “ghost particles,” because they are nearly weightless, rarely interact with any other matter, ...