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Astronomers have obtained unprecedented images of two star explosions, revealing complex ejection processes and delayed ...

A nova is a massive, temporary star explosion caused when a dense white dwarf star pulls material from a nearby star, setting ...

Astronomers have long been concerned about reflections from satellites showing up in images taken by telescopes and other ...

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Astronomers have captured the most detailed close-up images ever taken of stars exploding, known as novae. These pictures ...

In the summer of 2025, the discovery of 31/ATLAS ignited a global conversation that stretched far beyond astronomy. Almost ...

The enigmatic Maya calendar synchronizes all visible planets, thus solving an astronomical puzzle that had remained unsolved ...

A new research paper finds that the amount of light pollution coming from satellites could ruin NASA's Hubble Space Telescope ...

A team of astronomers using a variety of ground and space-based telescopes including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, ...