A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests.

Astronomers have observed three types of black holes in the universe. Stellar-mass black holes formed from the collapse of a ...

Using a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, it might be possible to use the sun as a gigantic telescope to peer deep ...

Scientists say microscopic black holes could explain the elusive "dark matter" that makes up a quarter of all matter in the ...

New evidence suggests that billions of years ago, a star may have passed very close to our solar system. As a result, ...

Now, however, Pluto and that part of the solar system has moved away from the backdrop of the Milky Way into a sparser region of the night sky. With its Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC), Subaru has discovered ...

The Expanse is more of an epic space opera than hard science fiction, but its scope recalls Cixin's trilogy and universe. Beginning with the novel Leviathan Wakes, the book series takes place in a ...

Scientists in the United Kingdom have stored the entire human genome on a “5D memory crystal,” in the hope that it could be ...

Weeks before Europa Clipper was to be shipped for launch, scientists discovered a potentially fatal flaw that might endanger ...

Plus Adrian Tchaikovsky’s ‘Service Model.’ ...

Forbes spotlights entrepreneurs, scientists, philanthropists, corporate leaders and policymakers focused on sustainable ...