A new study published on December 18 in Nature offers a way to explain that 150-million-year gap. Computer modeling and ...
A recent panel discussion highlighted how our “terrestrial view of the world” often hinders effective ocean conservation.
Which microbes thrive below us in darkness -- in gold mines, in aquifers, in deep boreholes in the seafloor -- and how do they compare to the microbiomes that envelop the Earth's surfaces, on land and ...
Comets without tails, called dark comets, are a newly discovered space object. Now, astronomers know they come in 2 classes.
New research may have delivered bad news for scientists who thought they had discovered a "missing link" black hole in a dense Milky Way star cluster.
From rare cosmic phenomena like Einstein Rings to dazzling starburst regions in spiral galaxies, each image offers a glimpse ...
After taking the first images of black holes, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is poised to reveal how black holes launch ...
A black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy has erupted in an enormous gamma-ray flare that is defying astronomer's ...
"How and where particles are accelerated in the jets of supermassive black holes has been a long-standing mystery." ...
“Familiar” black holes, if you can call them that, typically form in the wake of dying stars that collapse inwards.
TBIRD, a laser communications system developed by Lincoln Laboratory, transmits data at unprecedented speeds, enabling ...
The idea of BHEX is to use a space-based telescope to collect even more detailed information from black holes, as there is ...