One hundred degrees might seem hot, when you’re sweating through your shirt in July—but on a cosmic scale it barely registers. The Sun itself is over 15 million degrees; and in a hottest-object ...

Black holes are places where gravity is so powerful that nothing — not even light — can escape. Rather than being empty, black holes are chock full of matter that gets squeezed into a teensy space.

Dark energy and black holes are two of the most mysterious topics when it comes to space, but they might actually be linked.

The newly found object has an estimated mass about one million times that of the Sun. Its true identity remains uncertain: it could be a dense clump of dark matter roughly 100 times smaller than any ...

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According to a paper published this past week in the journal Nature Astronomy, scientists found what could be the brightest known object in the universe: a quasar produced by a massive and voracious ...

Eighteen-year-old YouTuber Christopher Slayton recently crafted entire planets, black holes, galaxies, and, well, the entire cosmos. And he used nothing but the blocks within Minecraft. In the more ...

On Wednesday, NASA’s Lucy mission got one step closer to investigating the enigmatic asteroids near Jupiter. This story, however, really began in another corner of the cosmos more than three decades ...

A team of astronomers have put together the largest, most detailed map of the universe ever created – and you can explore it now. The interactive online map, created using data from NASA's James Webb ...

The fabric of expanding space as illustrated over cosmic time. One of the consequences of the expansion is that the farther away a galaxy is, the faster it appears to recede from us, and that the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. If there's one thing we've experimentally determined to be a constant ...

Why they're black: Their gravitational pull is so extreme that even light can't escape Black holes are places where gravity is so powerful that nothing — not even light — can escape. Rather than being ...