Something mysterious has gone bump in the cosmos. About 800 million light-years away, a black hole devoured an unidentified object, and the resulting cosmic merger released enough energy to wrinkle ...

It’s the greatest cosmic murder mystery of the year: How did a black hole destroy a star—and what kind of black hole is the culprit? Normally, so-called “gamma ray bursts,” sudden flashes of extremely ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: Just south of Pfeiffer Beach sits the Henry Miller Memorial Library. This memorial to former Big Sur resident and writer Henry Miller – one of the most famous banned authors in ...