The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is scheduled for launch in 2034. The next-generation space instrument will be able to detect and measure gravitational waves ...

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...

Advanced alien civilisations, if they exist, could satisfy the energy needs of their home planet by migrating near miniature black holes and trapping the potentially unlimited energy around them, ...

This video explores obscure answers to the Fermi Paradox, asking why the universe seems silent if alien civilizations should ...

Could aliens be ‘hopping’ across the universe using binary black holes to blast their spacecraft close to the speed of light – allowing them to travel ‘invisibly’? It sounds like something from the ...

A black hole is the opposite of empty space; rather, it is an unimaginable amount of matter packed into almost infinitely small space. US space agency NASA scientists have calculated black hole could ...

A mysterious object speeding across the universe might look like a UFO, but the real story is even more fascinating.

The symmetrical holes which lie more than 1.5 miles underneath the ocean surface have yet to be explained by scientists. That hasn't stopped cheeky social media users speculating that aliens have been ...

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 ...

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 ...

Underwater explorers have been left baffled by mysterious holes punctured deep into the sea floor. The “perfectly aligned” markings appear 1.6 miles beneath the ocean’s surface in rarely explored ...