Astrophotographer Greg Meyer’s image of the “Raging Baboon Nebula” in Corona Australis reveals a baboon-like face with blue ...

In a significant stride towards understanding the universe’s elusive dark matter, scientists have potentially identified the ...

West Cork locals are praising a good Samaritan for saving drivers from badly damaging their vehicles - or worse - by warning ...

Our initial name ‘dark star’ is a misnomer,” Katherine Freese explained, highlighting the contradiction at the core of one of ...

Sinkholes are one of nature’s wildest curveballs. Imagine walking or driving on what seems like solid ground, only to ...

Astrophysicists are leading a project (TiDES) that will improve our understanding of the mysterious “dark energy” that ...

It’s possible that these objects might be the primordial beginnings of the supermassive black holes found in the centers of ...

The newly found object has an estimated mass about one million times that of the Sun. Its true identity remains uncertain: it ...

The nature of dark matter remains one of the greatest mysteries in cosmology. Within the standard framework of ...

Detecting dark matter—the mysterious substance that holds galaxies together—is one of the greatest unsolved problems in ...

A black hole far from its galactic center has unleashed the fastest, brightest radio flares ever seen from a star’s destruction. For the first time, astronomers have detected a tidal disruption event ...