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 ...

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." ...

This paper provides concrete evidence that the expanding and accelerating Universe mathematically expressed by dark energy is ...

An international team of astronomers has captured one of the most detailed images yet of a spectacular, ribbon-like jet ...

What can lava planets, rocky exoplanets that are tidally locked and orbit so close to their stars that the intense heat melts ...

Is there a massive undiscovered planet on the outer reaches of the solar system? The idea has been around since before the ...

Two meteor showers —the Alpha Capricornids and Southern Delta Aquariids — reach their peaks this week. Here’s how to observe ...

Ricci map - detail from a China panel. All images via Wikipedia. In 1602, the Wanli Emperor of the Ming dynasty had a big ...