Astronomers have long been fascinated by the enigmatic behavior of black holes and their role in the cosmos. These colossal ...

The government space agency has vocally promoted diversity and inclusion for decades, even during the first Trump ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

Artist's impression of a supermassive black hole surrounded by gas and dust in four different wavelengths of light. Visible ...

By combining data from NASA’s IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists have uncovered more hidden supermassive black holes than earlier estimates suggested. Their findings indicate that over a third of ...

A new study shows that black holes consume gas which creates an outburst that cools nearby gas for the black hole to consume ...

In NASA's latest survey, experts detected black holes hidden behind thick clouds of gas and dust and others that are not. Their study, published in the Astrophysical Journal, found that around 35% of ...

Explorer 1 became the first successfully launched satellite by the United States when it was sent to space on 31 January 1958 ...

Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals that black holes can cool gas to the proper temperature for a cosmic feast ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft brought rock samples from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. Now, in the analysis of the rock, scientists have found building blocks essential for life.

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.