A research team led by scientists at Kumamoto University has discovered a new genus of microscopic crustaceans from northern ...

In a remote sector of deep space, researchers have identified something unexpected — a signature that hints at molecular ...

It’s the greatest cosmic murder mystery of the year: How did a black hole destroy a star—and what kind of black hole is the culprit? Normally, so-called “gamma ray bursts,” sudden flashes of extremely ...

APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans ...

Tunnels of cold water from Antarctica may have driven a chill in the Western Pacific Warm Pool 1.5 million years ago. Credit: NOAA About 1.5 million years ago, the mid-depth waters of the tropical ...

To test one of Stephen Hawking’s most controversial ideas, scientists created a laboratory version of a black hole using ...