While surveying distant worlds beyond our solar system, researchers unexpectedly obtained the first direct images showing ...

Scientists have captured the first direct images of colliding objects in a neighboring star system. Astronomers have seen the ...

New observations of 3I/ATLAS provide real data that scientists are using to evaluate asteroid behavior ahead of Apophis’ 2029 ...

In 2008, astronomers detected an unexplained bright object located 25 light-years from Earth in the Piscis Austrinus ...

On Aug. 14, 2019, a gravitational wave -- a massive ripple through the fabric of space-time -- washed over the Earth. The wave was detected by sophisticated, fine-tuned lasers in the U.S. and Italy.

When two black holes slam together, they do not simply vanish into darkness, they ring like struck bells and briefly light up the universe in ripples of gravity. For the first time, a handful of ...

In August 2017, astronomers were treated to one of the most spectacular stellar light shows ever seen – a collision between two neutron stars. The smashup was so powerful it sent gravitational ripples ...

The computer graphics community is always interested in faster methods to generate images. This is why Pixar and several other organizations are funding the research of a Carnegie Mellon University ...

The solar system's strange cigar-shaped visitor 'Oumuamua—Hawaiian for "scout" or "messenger"—is tumbling chaotically as the result of a violent collision. And the interstellar object will continue to ...

If you had a collision with something 50 times your weight, it would probably (pun intended) have a major impact. But mosquitos do this all the time. Raindrops can weigh 50 times more than a mosquito, ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...