Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole ripping apart and devouring a star in colliding galaxies. It is only the ...

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Across the cosmos, many stars can be found in pairs, gracefully circling one another. Yet one of the most dramatic pairings ...

A newly analyzed radio image reveals twin lobes stretching roughly 66,000 light-years on each side of a quasar called ...

In a major leap forward, scientists, using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), have captured the sharpest images yet of ...

Read A disk of hot gas swirls around a black hole in this illustration. Some of the gas came from a star that was pulled ...

The Webb telescope reveals the Sombrero galaxy’s dusty and turbulent history in a new stunning near-infrared portrait.

Earth will have a meltdown. What are our options? Tardigrades are little critters that were around before dinosaurs, and will eventually outlast us on Earth. They are so tough they can survive ...

Astronomers have discovered the largest and most ancient radio jet ever detected, emitted by a quasar from when the universe ...

Scientists' best explanation for how planets form is called the core accretion theory. The birth of a planetary system begins ...

Ever wonder how NASA captures stunning images from deep space probes? Interplanetary scientist John Spencer takes us behind ...

I got my first tattoo in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. It was a tribal rose—a classic ’90s design—and an act of rebellion for ...