Gravity and quantum physics interact at the event horizons of black holes, though physicists don’t understand all the details. A new theoretical study has proposed that very small black holes, dubbed ...

APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans ...

From a world shaped like a giant donut to a planet with the sharp edges of a perfect cube, changing the shape of Earth would ...

Astronomers have spotted the biggest flare ever seen erupting around a black hole, which also happens to be the most distant ...

A newly formed black hole, GW190412, was captured fleeing at 180,000 km/h; scientists track its entire cosmic trajectory for the first time.

An asteroid named 2025 PN7 has been in quasi-orbit of Earth for approximately 60 years. It's expected to stay there for ...

Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object ...

Scientists have documented the most energetic flare ever observed emanating from a supermassive black hole, a cataclysmic ...

A 350-foot drop in sea level over the Indian Ocean stems from magma plumes tied to an ancient ocean bed. If You See a Star on ...

The ground may feel steady underfoot, but the planet is always in motion. While satellites and sensors have mapped the surface in fine detail, what lies beneath remains largely unknown. The crust, a ...

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

Why it's incredible: Evidence suggests it could be the greatest known impact crater on Earth. The Wilkes Land crater is a hole in the bedrock beneath East Antarctica's ice sheet measuring 315 miles ...