A beam of particles speeding away from a monstrous black hole is severely kinked, suggesting that the black hole is actually part of the most extreme binary system known.
The lake was completely drained in the spring of 2025.
High-speed winds on exoplanet WASP-17b may align quartz crystals in its atmosphere and create dazzling light effects like "sun dogs."
New research suggests that primordial black holes could have played an important role in the formation of the universe's first stars, but did they help or hinder?
A new version of the famous double-slit experiment showed that it's impossible to measure light as both a wave and a particle at the same time, thanks to quantum physics' uncertainty principle.
A hidden lake beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet unexpectedly drained more than a decade ago, fracturing the ice surface and forming a large crater — an event only recently uncovered by Earth-observing satellites.
The Sculptor galaxy is a treasure trove of information that astronomers around the world cannot wait to pick apart.
A possible planet may be carving the disc around the young star
Meet the astonishing phenomenon of megaflash lightning.
The James Webb Space Telescope's investigations of the planetary nebula NGC 6072 suggest a second star played a hand in sculpting the death of the primary star.
