Lab-grown black hole analog behaves just like Stephen Hawking said it would
In 1974, Stephen Hawking theorized that the universe's darkest gravitational behemoths, black holes, were not the pitch-black star swallowers astro…
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Planet 9 probably doesn’t exist, new paper argues
Does the solar system have a big, dark ninth planet drifting somewhere far beyond…
Neutrons’ ‘evil twins’ may be crushing stars into black holes
The universe may be filled with "mirror" particles — and these otherwise-undetectable particles could be shrinking the densest stars in the unive…
Aliens could be sucking energy from black holes. That may be how we’ll find them.
Aliens could be sucking power from black holes — and that could be how we'd spot the extraterrestrials, scientists say.
Scientists narrow down the ‘weight’ of dark matter trillions of trillions of times
Scientists are finally figuring out how much dark matter — the almost imperceptible …
Asteroid the size of the Golden Gate Bridge will whiz past Earth in March
An asteroid as wide as the Golden Gate Bridge is long will hurtle past Earth next month. But although it will be the biggest and speediest asteroid…
Earth’s mountains disappeared for a billion years, and then life stopped evolving
Earth, like so many of its human inhabitants, may have experienced a mid-life crisis that culminated in baldness. But it wasn't a receding hairline…
‘Farfarout’ is most distant object in our solar system. But it’s not Planet Nine.
Astronomers have identified the most distant known object in our solar system — a dwarf planet nicknamed Farfarout that orbits far beyond Pluto…
Scientists prepare for their last good look at asteroid Apophis before 2029 flyby
On March 5, wave hello to the most infamous asteroid that won't slam into Earth in 2029. Scientists sure will.