In the end, the Universe becomes a place where gravity and quantum physics slowly turn all mass into faint streams of particles.

A new study by researchers at the University of Amsterdam shows how gravitational waves from black holes can be used to ...

Dusty stars close to the Milky Way’s black hole stay stable for years. New infrared data shows they survive gravity and ...

A small but incredibly fast unwanted guest is about to swing past Earth at the speed of light. Yeah, this is the tiniest ...

When I was five years old, my family moved into a 1930s semi-detached house with a long strip of garden. At the end of the garden was a miniature orchard of eight apple trees the previous owners had ...

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 ...

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 ...

Enthralling and perplexing, black holes continue to inspire the pens of many science fiction writers and screenwriters. But what exactly is a black hole, and ...

The tidal forces produced by a tiny black hole would have an interesting effect on human bodies.

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 ...

Explore the mind-bending idea of tunneling through Earth with Neil deGrasse Tyson, covering gravity, heat, and physics ...