As fishing goes, the sturgeon spearing season on Black Lake may be the shortest in the country: Six fish long. Starting at 8 a.m. on Feb. 1, about 500 fishers hoped to throw spears at sturgeon passing ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, ...

New details have been discovered about M87*, the first black hole ever photographed, revealing its plasma, its brightness and ...

Scientists have created the first-ever 3D maps of star-forming molecular clouds near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

Scientists have found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive black holes 13 billion light years away.

Using the Gemini North telescope, astronomers have detected the largest black hole jet ever seen in the early universe. It's ...

The giant jet flips the script on the origins of these structures, which were once thought to be linked only to extremely ...

From decades of astronomical observations, scientists know that most galaxies contain massive black holes at their centers.

New research shows black holes can trigger gas cooling, creating fuel for their own feeding. This process keeps them growing ...

How do you take a picture of something that swallows light itself? 🤯 In this video, we break down the technology behind the ...