"We found something never seen before and, more importantly, entirely unexpected," team leader Simone Scaringi of Durham ...

Astronomers are gathering in Phoenix this week for the 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS 247), where ...

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After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A ...

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A supermassive black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 just delivered an X-ray surprise that astronomers have never watched ...

NASA's SPHEREx telescope unveiled its first full-sky map of the universe, combining more than 100 infrared observations into ...

In observations conducted between April 5 and April 10, 2017, the team looked at the relativistic jet produced by OJ 287, a ...

Astronomers from our Physics department have discovered a striking and unexplained shock wave surrounding a dead star. The ...

New observations of a nearby red giant star suggest that a long-standing explanation for how giant stars spread life’s ...

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From ancient stargazers to modern-day space scientists, women have shaped our understanding of the cosmos. This crossword ...