Unlike active galaxies that endlessly devour nearby matter, these black holes remain in slumber, stirring only momentarily to consume an unlucky passing star. Astronomers from MIT, Columbia University ...

Astronomers believe they have spotted an elusive intermediate-mass black hole shredding a distant star, and they have ...

In 1992, NASA's Galileo spacecraft took detailed pictures of the Moon while on its way to Jupiter. It captured a colorful view near the Moon's north pole using 18 green-filter images. The image shows ...

The 1964 event, considered the worst tsunami disaster recorded in the United States, began with a 9.2 magnitude earthquake in ...

Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins has participated in a significant training exercise designed to simulate the full operation of Belfast's flood defences in the event of a tidal surge. The exercise ...