And the winner is… If this were a fight, the Big Bang would win by knockout in round one. For one thing, no empirical ...

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighboring regions of the universe, astronomers say.

The study suggested that our universe formed from the collapse of a black hole, inside a bigger parent universe, rather than ...

Using a combination of telescopes, astronomers have characterized the closest supernova linked to a fast X-ray transient. The ...

Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic ...

A worker with the Department of Environmental Protection was killed Saturday morning in a "large" explosion while working on a docked boat in the Hudson River, the agency and the FDNY said. The 59 ...