The Black Cloud Fred Hoyle’s classic science fiction novel “The Black Cloud” is story that is set in the late 1960s and deals ...

Decades ago in its heyday, Lenghu pulsed with grit as home of China's "fourth largest oilfield," where workers braved sandstorms and thin air to pump the nation's industrial lifeblood. Today, these ...

The very first stars in the universe may have been much smaller than scientists thought — potentially explaining why we can't ...

A sleeping ultramassive black hole, 36 billion times the Sun’s mass, is warping light 5 billion light-years from Earth.

Far from being an icy enigma, Uranus is now known to radiate some of its own heat, hinting at a more dynamic history than ...

Scientists have spotted a giant black hole. It is 36 billion times the mass of our Sun. This black hole resides 5 billion ...

Astronomers may have found the most massive black hole in universe - Gargantuan object is around 36 million times more ...

Scientists have tapped into gravitational lensing and stellar dynamics to confirm the existence of a black hole with 36 ...

The far edges of our galaxy might seem like quiet, empty places, but astronomers have discovered that even in these remote ...

A dramatic event in our galaxy may be giving birth to new stars. A recent study led by Ph.D. student Dilda Berdikhan from the ...

Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell has formally indicted Adam Christoper Sheafe, 50, for the murder of William ...

The technology is speculative — and the costs astronomical — but an astrophysicist suggests we're not far from sending the world's smallest spacecraft to achieve the biggest mission in modern physics.