Most people have heard of "love at first sight." But how about "love at first collision?"In a study fit for Valentine's Day, Northwestern University ...

A technique called sonification allows new discoveries, brings out subtleties in dense data, and makes astronomy more accessible.

I envision myself falling down a rabbit hole -- similar to Alice in Wonderland. The farther I fall, the darker it gets. In my mind, it's like I'm "falling" into deep sleep," Nasha explains.

As civilizations advance, they may need to migrate across the galaxy, and some researchers speculate they could use their own stars as massive engines. New research explores the possibility of a ...

The artist’s first museum survey pushes the bounds of language and upends notions about how we connect with one another.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is providing the best look yet at the chaotic events unfolding around the supermassive ...

NASA's flagship space telescope captured flares from the disk of superheated material around the black hole, revealing the dynamic—and explosive—physics at our galaxy's core.

Astrophysicists have observed our central supermassive black hole. They found the accretion disk is constantly emitting flares without periods of rest. Shorter, faint flares and longer, bright flares ...

"This discovery challenges the common belief that black holes formed in star clusters always have randomly distributed spins." "Roses are red. Violets are blue. Your event horizon means I can't ...

We list the best data visualization tools, to make it simple and easy to better understand data and trends with it. Data visualization can be used in the form of anything from presentations to ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...