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Around seven asteroids or comets are thought to hit Saturn ever year, but we have never spotted one in the act. Now, it seems ...
Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...
"This tangible evidence of a double detonation not only contributes towards solving a long-standing mystery, but also offers ...
The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...
Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic ...
A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that ...
Newfound interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be carrying pristine material from early in the Milky Way’s star-forming history.
New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...