Even the oceans aren’t level. Hidden beneath the swells, Earth’s gravity subtly rises and falls—leaving a quiet “dip” in the ...

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

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

The EHT captured a surprising polarization reversal around M87*, pointing to rapidly changing magnetic fields near the black ...

The Event Horizon Telescope only recently gave us the first images of the environment immediately surrounding a black hole. Since then, it has been boosting the resolution and filling in the details ...

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 ...

Enthralling and perplexing, black holes continue to inspire the pens of many science fiction writers and screenwriters. But ...

Astronomers watched how the light brightened and dimmed near the event horizon of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

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 ...

In a major leap forward, scientists, using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), have captured the sharpest images yet of distant galactic centers. Using light at a frequency of 345 GHz, they’ve peered ...

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 ...