Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .

He was Edward the Black Prince, not Edward the Black King. But despite that spoiler, Edward endures as one of the most (in)famous royal commanders in European history, gaining a record of violent ...

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its colossal gravity shreds them to pieces. The resulting string of matter ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

NASA astronomers have confirmed what may be the greatest discovery of the era. They found a significant reservoir of water that was hidden in the cosmos, and that surrounds a quasa ...

Ron Foster (Letters, July 8) writes that "for too long, owners of electric vehicles (EVs) in Australia have been given a free ...

Two international teams zoned in on a potential answer to a decades-long mystery surrounding ephemeral cosmic X-rays.

This stunning image dubbed 'Cosmic Owl' captures a remarkable moment in deep space, billions of light years away.

"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

The Gathering' is taking its next big risk: a full-on leap into science fiction. A certain Star franchise may have boldly ...

Are we living in a cosmic void? New theory suggests our galaxy sits in a giant hole warping the universe's expansion.

The Earth, the solar system, and the entire Milky Way are stranded near the centre of a giant, mysterious hole where the ...