Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its colossal gravity shreds them to pieces. The resulting string of matter ...

The James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) is celebrating three years of transformational science with a striking new image of ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

The fact that this carbon dust can potentially survive for centuries could change how we think about the building blocks of new stars.

What happens when two rare ring galaxies collide? They form an infinity symbol—or the face of a cosmic owl, depending on how ...