Explore the mysteries of black holes with this detailed explanation of escape velocity for light! This video breaks down the physics behind why light cannot escape a black hole, connecting concepts ...

Dive into the physics of space with this problem breakdown on the momentum change of an asteroid! In this video, we analyze step by step how to calculate momentum changes, using clear explanations and ...

Sun Region 4366 has produced dozens of solar flares since Jan. 30, "putting on quite a show," says Slooh President and ...

Astronomers have spotted a mysteriously mature “baby cluster” of galaxies in the early universe, scarcely a billion years ...

The young galaxy cluster existed about 12.8 billion years ago and has an estimated mass 20 trillion times that of the sun ...

Astronomers have strengthened long-standing predictions that massive runaway stars could have originated in binary pairs, and ...

The work shows a lack of scientific support for banning trans athletes, but also highlights the need for more data about ...

Light is the fastest phenomenon in the universe, clocking in at just under 300,000 kilometers per second. The telescopes that observe that light, from radio waves to gamma rays, are built at rather ...

Dating to only a billion years after the big bang, JADES-ID1 may be the earliest, most distant galaxy protocluster astronomers have ever seen ...

One such mystery, described in a recent paper in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, concerns circumbinary exoplanets—or rather, the shortage thereof—in the now 6,000+ exoplanets confirmed to date.

Shapley’s award of the 2026 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics will be presented at the 249th AAS Meeting, Jan. 10-14, ...

Dr. Neta Bahcall, the Eugene Higgins professor of astrophysics at Princeton University and the wife of the late John Bahcall, will present the inaugural John Bahcall Colloquium ...