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Flowing water suggests that water ice may have survived in the asteroid for longer than what was thought possible.

Scientists Find Evidence of Flowing Water on Giant Asteroid

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers say they've found evidence of an ancient and never directly observed class of object known as a primordial black hole.

Scientists Discover Black Hole Created Less Than One Second After the Big Bang

By Frank Landymore

New research suggests that large planets can accumulate enough black matter in their cores to spawn a destructive black hole.

Scientists Say Black Holes Could Form Inside Planets, Leading to Absolute Catastrophe

By Frank Landymore

Radio Astronomers Find Weird Object in Nearby Galaxy That Stands Out Against the Entire Sky

By Noor Al-Sibai

Thought to be some kind of galaxy, the Little Red Dots were spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope and have stumped astronomers for years.

Astronomers Say They’ve Finally Solved the “Little Red Dots” Mystery

By Frank Landymore

The astronomers estimated that the "ultramassive" black hole is over 10,000 times the mass of the Milky Way's black hole.

Scientists Discover What Appears to Be the Largest Black Hole in the Universe, So Heavy That It Completely Bends the Light Around It Into a Giant Ring

By Frank Landymore

The tentative detection of complex organic molecules around a young star has big implications about these crucial chemicals to life.

Scientists Find Evidence That Original Life on Earth Was Assembled From Material in Space

By Frank Landymore

An incredible object form by two colliding galaxies may be the site of a recently formed supermassive black hole.

Bizarre “Infinity Galaxy” Could Hold the Secrets of Supermassive Black Holes

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have witnessed evidence of a collision between black holes so huge that it defies their understanding of physics.

Scientists Detect Sign of Something Impossible Out in Deep Space

By Frank Landymore

When huge stars are denied a glorious death, something more brutal occurs, and you get mysterious signals known as fast x-ray transients.

Mysterious Signals From Deep Space Hint at Something Brutal, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers have confirmed that a recently spotted object is an interstellar visitor, and appears to have come from the center of our galaxy.

Mysterious Object Headed Into Our Solar System Is Coming From the Center of the Galaxy

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers have taken the first ever image that shows what happens when a star explodes twice in a supernova.

Astronomers Capture First-Ever Image of Star That Exploded Twice

By Frank Landymore

Astrophysicist and Nobel laureate Reinhard Genzel is slightly skeptical about a new study that used AI to tease out a black hole's secrets.

Nobel Prize Winner Warns About Astronomers Using AI to Make Discoveries

By Frank Landymore

We're on the verge of decoding a telltale signal emitted when the universe gave birth to the very first stars.

Scientists Working to Decode Signal From Earliest Years of Universe

By Frank Landymore

Clumps of dark matter may actually be interacting with light just a teensy bit, enough to dim the light of stars it passes in front of.

Astronomers Suggest That Entire Stars Are Being Obscured by Giant “Lampshades” of Dark Matter

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered the nature of a strange, blue haze that dominates the climate of Pluto.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Peers Into Mysterious Haze Covering Pluto

By Frank Landymore