In a recent piece for my column The Universe, I wrote about the biggest black holes in the cosmos. Black holes are rather ...

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, reflect or absorb light, yet is predicted to account for most of ...

On September 19, the waning crescent moon will rise with Venus and Regulus, while parts of the world see a rare occultation.

The cosmos has always fascinated us, with its vast expanses and mysteries that are yet to be fully understood. The ...

Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these galactic gluttons ...

Using a specially designed solar telescope combined with an astronomy camera, he captured the rocket’s silhouette cutting through fiery shockwaves in the Sun’s plasma.

A massive asteroid, 2025 FA22, will safely pass Earth on September 18, 2025, at a distance of 4.6 million miles. Initially ...

Astronomers are pulling back the curtain on two of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how planets are born and how invisible ...

Astronomers from Pune's NCRA-TIFR have discovered a rare pulsar, PSR J1617–2258A, in the ancient star cluster M80 using India's upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT).

The newly discovered pulsar orbits its companion once every 19 hours, but instead of a smooth circle, the orbit is stretched into a long oval. Its unusual orbit makes the system very rare ...

The polarization pattern around M87* — the first black hole to be directly imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope — has ...

In 2010, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) made history when its Hayabusa probe became the first spacecraft to ...