When a black hole spins rapidly, it drags the space around it, akin to a whirlpool in water. This phenomenon is called ...

Fallstreak holes can technically form naturally, but the most common cause is actually unnatural. Most fallstreak holes form ...

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...

Scientists have discovered a mysterious hole on the surface of Mars, and they have no idea what lies inside it. This pit, ...

Scientists say Earth’s magnetic field may have funneled atmospheric particles to the moon for billions of years. Lunar soil could preserve a record of Earth’s past while providing resources for future ...

The world’s oceans are becoming dangerously acidic. A controversial proposal would raise the pH — by mixing chemicals into ...

A wobbling jet from a giant, voracious black hole is suppressing star formation in a distant galaxy—and astronomers have ...

"We're going to do it in three years, and we're going to do it for a ridiculously low price," Pete Klupar, executive director ...

A test model of the Perseverance rover, designed to explore the surface of Mars, sits in a garage at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

"This was many times more energetic than any similar event and more than any known explosion powered by the collapse of a ...

An inexplicably hot, fast-growing cluster of galaxies in the early universe has scientists questioning theories of galactic ...

It sounds like something from the plot of Interstellar, but this plan to beam precious data back to Earth—before it’s lost ...