We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Imagine if a species grew up on a planet that had a black hole moon the mass of the moon. They’d have tides, they’d have an unobstructed view of the night sky, and they’d have no clue about this ...

With the recent first light milestone for the Vera Rubin Observatory, it's only a matter of time before one of astronomy's ...

"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

The buck moon is the first full moon in July and will be one of the most clearly visible lunar events of the year.

The bold question-askers at What If venture beyond the event horizon to speculate what could lie inside a black hole.

The search for dark matter requires all the best models, theories, and ideas we can throw at it. A new paper by Julia Monika Koulen, Stefano Profumo, and Nolan Smyth from the University of California ...

A new study has been accepted by the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics that proposes two new models of black ...

ASKAP J0107–2347 uncovers an ancient black hole event and unearths relics of galactic prehistory. More of these double-lobed Giant Radio Galaxies could be discovered in future ASKAP surveys, helping ...