Scientists at the LIGO Hanford Observatory have made a groundbreaking discovery by observing the largest black hole merger ever recorded through gravitational waves.

Klyuchevskoy volcano in Russia erupted shortly after a powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake in the same region. Klyuchevskoy volcano in eastern Russia began erupting shortly after a powerful 8.8 ...

High above our planet, where the magnetosphere meets the emptiness of space, a powerful battle unfolds. Streams of charged ...

The mysterious cosmic explosion has been traced to a massive stellar explosion. A global team of astrophysicists, led by researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Leicester ...

Neutrinos are extremely elusive elementary particles. Day and night, 60 billion of them stream from the Sun through every square centimeter of the Earth every second, which is transparent to them.

After 350 years, the UK's first female Astronomer Royal has been appointed. Professor Michele Dougherty will act as an ...

"The formation of planetary systems is not exclusive to stars but might also work around lonely starless worlds." ...

Google's earthquake early-warning system has used phone accelerometers on Android devices to increase quake alerts by tenfold ...

Professor Michele Dougherty, the newly appointed Astronomer Royal, is best known for discoveries that have reshaped how ...