If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a ...

For the first time, researchers have found evidence that even microquasars with low-mass stars can efficiently accelerate ...

Researchers have discovered the largest black hole plasma jets ever in a galaxy almost 7 billion light years away from Earth.

Our home planet is bombarded with particles from outer space all the time. And while we are mostly familiar with the rocky ...

Space is already filled with plenty of mysteries, and black holes may be among the strangest. Here are some of the questions ...

A few turned out to be galaxies in the process of forming lots of stars, but many were obscured black holes. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more!

Supermassive black holes, on the other hand, have masses equivalent to millions, or even billions, of suns crammed into a space no more than a few billion miles wide. For context, the solar system ...

Black holes are famous for being insatiable concentrations of gravity from which not even light can escape. And if they floated through space all on their lonesome, it might be the end of the story.

Artistic illustration of the thick dust torus surrounding a supermassive black holes and its accretion disks ... NuSTAR was developed in partnership with the Danish Technical University and the ...

This Research Topic is still accepting articles. Article 1 of the Outer Space Treaty, which has been ratified by 112 countries, provides that the "exploration and use of outer space, including the ...