The spacecraft, no heavier than a gram and propelled to a third of the speed of light by lasers on Earth, would gather ...

A visionary plan proposes sending a paperclip-sized spacecraft, powered by Earth-based lasers, to a nearby black hole within ...

While the idea of sending a spacecraft to a black hole dozens of light-years from Earth might sound like something straight ...

In a paper published in the journal iScience, Bambi lays out a plan to turn such a deep-space mission into reality. If ...

It took place some 750 million light-years away, flaring into the detectors of the Zwicky Transient Facility on 7 July. At ...

For a spacecraft like that to reach a black hole in such a relatively short time, there would have to be a black hole 20-25 ...

The author, astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi of Fudan University, places the idea “somewhere between hard engineering and science ...

About 5 billion light-years away from where you're sitting, in one of the most massive galaxies on record, there exists an ...

Astronomers have discovered what may be a massive star exploding while trying to swallow a black hole companion, offering an ...

It sounds like science fiction: a spacecraft, no heavier than a paperclip, propelled by a laser beam and hurtling through ...

A team of astronomers says it has identified the most distant black hole ever confirmed — a cosmic heavyweight that formed ...