Apples-to-apples comparisons in the distant universe are hard to come by. Whether the subject is dwarf galaxies, supermassive black holes, or 'hot Jupiters,' astronomers can spend months or years ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out and observe a planetary nebula in the ...

Astronomers have developed a computer simulation to explore, in unprecedented detail, magnetism and turbulence in the ...

We have long taken it for granted that gravity is one of the basic forces of nature – one of the invisible threads that keeps ...

What is Space Jaws? A covert black hole revealed itself to astronomers in 2025 with a spectacular burst of radiation known as a tidal disruption event ...

Cosmologist Katie Mack breaks down what the latest findings about dark energy mean for our universe’s future. Either way, it won’t be happy. Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI ...

A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European ...

On Thursday, May 1, 2025, four zodiac signs are the universe’s favorites. This day is dedicated to life lessons.

Ever wondered if the universe runs like your computer? A physicist now thinks gravity may be part of the code. A new study from Dr Melvin Vopson, University of Portsmouth, suggests gravity could ...

Because stars create nearly all the chemical elements in the universe, including the carbon and oxygen ... tidal forces of the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, can stretch and ...

Whether we are simply characters in an advanced virtual world is a much-debated theory, challenging previous thinking about the universe and our existence. The possibility that the entire universe ...

When we look deeply into the night sky, we also look back in time. Compared with the universe as a whole, Earth is quite young at 4.5 billion years old. Scientists arrived at this number because ...