While solitary black holes should be common, they are hard to find. The one in Sagittarius revealed itself when it passed in front of a dim background star, magnifying the star’s light and slowly ...

In a baffling cosmic mystery, astronomers have reported a star that appeared to vanish without a trace. One night it was there, shining bright—and the next, it was gone. No explosion, no fading, no ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet that orbits at a 90-degree angle around a rare pair of strange stars—a real-life 'twist' ...

The quasi-periodic eruptions of X-rays from a black hole 300 million light-years away are unlike any researchers have ever seen before.

Despite decades of searching for this signal, astronomers have yet to find it. The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, making it nearly impossible to capture this whisper. The solution is to go to ...

In the realm of general relativity, black holes are well-known for their ability to trap light and matter by bending ...

Another season of Star Wars anthology storytelling is on the way from the franchise’s Tales banner. This series began in 2022 with Tales of the Jedi, 2024 delivered Tales of the Empire ...

Bid farewell to ESA's retiring Milky Way mapper Engineers fix ESA's Gaia observatory from 1.5M kilometers away Scientists spot startlingly close black holes in Hyades star cluster Silicon ... almost ...

In the Bible, Job specifically mentions the star Arcturus, or the bear keeper, to his friend as a sign of God’s majesty. He describes God as that “Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades ...

The Star Wars timeline is epic, to say the least. It's made up of everything from TV shows, to tie-in novels, video games, comic books - and of course, the movies. It can be a lot of to keep track ...

Ian Randall is Newsweek's Deputy Science Editor, based in Royston, U.K. His focus is reporting on science and health. He has covered archeology, geology, and physics extensively. Ian joined ...