This artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole in the process of shredding a massive star—at least 30 times the mass of our Sun—to pieces. Scientists propose this is what happened around the ...

How do we know the speed of light – and why does it have a speed limit at all? Leah Crane explores the history of one of the most important numbers in the universe ...

Scientists have discovered a supermassive black hole flare, the largest seen in the universe, and it may be making a meal of ...

The flare came from a supermassive black hole that’s 10 billion light years away, making the flash the most distant one observed so far. It hails from a time when the universe was rather young. A ...

Last month, an art festival in Reykjavík provided the art world with a much-needed opportunity to slow down and rediscover ...

There’s a thrift store in Brattleboro that’s causing perfectly rational Vermonters to clear out their Saturday schedules and embark on pilgrimages from every corner of the state.

Over 15 years of movies and TV shows, 17 characters have wielded at least one Infinity Stone in the Marvel Cinematic Universe ...

As humans began to explore outer space in the latter half of the 20th century, radio waves proved a powerful tool. Scientists could send out radio waves to communicate with satellites, rockets and ...

The Universe may not have begun with a Big Bang, but instead with a Big Bounce, according to a new theory about how the Universe expands ...

The most massive stars in the universe are destined to explode as brilliant supernova before collapsing into black holes. Yet ...

Darkseid and Thanos are both powerful individuals with some of the most extraordinary feats of villainy in their respective universes.

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has baffled NASA and astronomers after it changed colour to 'distinctly bluer than the Sun' and ...