universe

One black hole is nice, but astrophysicists can do a lot more science with 50 of them

The concept of a parallel universe has been around since the early 1960s, mostly in the minds of fans of sci-fi TV shows and comics

All-sky surveys usually take years. This one took weeks

Reality seems all the more crazy than sci-fi movies

Such an event may be occurring in the center of our galaxy

In total matter –the stuff from which humans & objects on Earth are made– makes up around a third of the total matter & energy in the universe

“When we talk about the temperature in a room, that’s not the way a scientist would talk about it"

The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope finds two giant planets orbiting a distant star that's just like our sun

“NASA needs a definition of life so it knows how to build detectors and what kinds of instruments to use on its missions”

Scientists are still unsure how the black hole could have been created, and how such a powerful blast might have been sent out