Today in the history of astronomy, one of the brightest and most famous scientific minds of the modern era is born.

A posthumous work by Stephen Hawking will be released on October 17, 2018. Called "Brief answers to the great questions of ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led ...

The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...

Black holes are not cosmic vacuum cleaners. They are among the universe’s most extreme objects - and come in different sizes.

In the summer of 1998, the late Professor Stephen Hawking found himself captivated by Greece's Samos: "Heaven on Earth." ...

Discover the significant world events, notable birthdays, and notable deaths that occurred on January 8. Check what happened ...

When astronomers look deep into the early universe, the expectation is simple. You should see young galaxies still assembling ...

Explore Stephen Hawking's concerns about AI and its potential to be humanity's biggest existential threat. Discover the ...

QSO1. It lived just 700 million years after the Big Bang and already had a mass about 50 million times that of the Sun.

Astronomers were puzzled by a black hole around 50 million times the mass of the sun with no stars, spotted by the James Webb ...

For roughly half a century, astrophysicists have treated the behavior of matter around supermassive black holes as a solved ...