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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been ...

Astronomers combing through old image data have found evidence of a Star Wars-style planet orbiting two suns that previous ...

Yu-Jing Qin, a postdoctoral researcher at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), led a series of spectroscopic ...

New measurements using gravitational lensing suggest the universe’s current expansion rate does not agree with signals from ...

"A bit like dinosaurs on Earth — they were enormous and primitive. And they had short lives, living for just a quarter of a ...

Physicists discovered that the famous 'Star Trek' spaceship got a lot right about designing a ship to jump from galaxy to ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS makes its final pass by Earth this week. Its speed of 137,000 mph and unique chemical makeup have ...

By studying faint distortions in galaxy shapes across a vast region of sky, scientists probed the hidden structure of the universe. In the standard picture of the universe, nearly everything is hidden ...

NASA scientists have finally pinpointed the source of mysterious radiation from a supermassive black hole, solving a puzzle ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

A mysterious cloud of ultra-hot dust around Kappa Tucanae A may finally have an explanation: a hidden companion star. The ...