The spacecraft, no heavier than a gram and propelled to a third of the speed of light by lasers on Earth, would gather ...

An astrophysicist argues that the interstellar mission would be extremely challenging but not completely unrealistic ...

A visionary plan proposes sending a paperclip-sized spacecraft, powered by Earth-based lasers, to a nearby black hole within ...

For a spacecraft like that to reach a black hole in such a relatively short time, there would have to be a black hole 20-25 ...

About 5 billion light-years away from where you're sitting, in one of the most massive galaxies on record, there exists an ...

Violent black hole collisions may create black hole 'morsels' no larger than an asteroid — and these bizarre objects could ...

In a paper published in the journal iScience, Bambi lays out a plan to turn such a deep-space mission into reality. If ...

It sounds like science fiction: a spacecraft, no heavier than a paperclip, propelled by a laser beam and hurtling through ...

They wouldn’t last for long, but the emissions from tiny black hole buds could light the way to quantum gravity.

The Webb telescope found that a far-off little red dot is the oldest known black hole, shrouded by gas that could help explain the ruby color.

It took place some 750 million light-years away, flaring into the detectors of the Zwicky Transient Facility on 7 July. At ...

Astronomers have discovered what may be a massive star exploding while trying to swallow a black hole companion, offering an ...