Could a faint glow from 13 billion light-years away be the light of the universe’s very first stars? Astronomers working with the James Webb Space Telescope think they may have just caught such a ...

Past research about black hole births rarely included magnetic fields or the spins of the precursor stars. But considering ...

In an extraordinary testament to the predictive power of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, a star system has been discovered that demonstrates extreme gravitational lensing. This observation ...

A collision between black holes that sent one spiraling away at million 3 mph. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers have ...

The European Space Agency's Euclid mission—designed to map the geometry of the dark universe with unprecedented ...

June 17 (UPI) --A chaotic, young star system, located 400 light-years from Earth, has offered astronomers new insights into the planet formation process. Observations of the stellar system Elias 2-27 ...

A new probe in development known as GIRO represents a low-cost step toward unlocking the secrets of the outer planets, all through the invisible pull of gravity. Engineers have designed a compact, ...

Researchers have succeeded in measuring the gravitational field of a gold sphere, just 2 mm in diameter, using a highly sensitive pendulum - and thus the smallest gravitational force. The experiment ...

A recent study published in Nature, co-authored by researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, found mounting evidence for the role of magnetic fields in star formation. By ...