Shrouded by a swirl of gas and dust, a gas giant, roughly three to ten times the size of Jupiter, was found in a new ...

A team of researchers have made progress in understanding how some of the universe’s heaviest particles behave under extreme ...

Merger creates black holes weighing 240 times the mass of our Sun — the heaviest binary black hole system confirmed through gravitational-wave observations.

Astronomers have recorded gravitational waves from the largest ever black hole collision detected. Two behemoths merged in a cataclysmic event 10 billion light years from Earth. The cosmic giants, ...

Gravitational wave detectors have "heard" the ripples in space caused by the most massive black hole merger yet. One "forbidden" by current theoretical models.

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe.

The world's most powerful telescopes, including the James Webb Space Telescope and FAST, are revolutionizing our ...

Collaboration has detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves using the LIGO ...