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A unique dataset of Type Ia supernovae being released today could change how cosmologists measure the expansion history of ...

Chris Li, assistant professor of chemistry in the UB College of Arts and Sciences, has been named to the 2025 Class of Cottrell Scholars by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement.

Learn about the life and scientific contributions of Johannes Kepler, the 17th-century astronomer known for his laws of ...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its own. It is being dragged along by its parent star.

A stunning new discovery reveals that white dwarf stars — once thought to explode in predictable ways — actually detonate through an astonishing variety of mechanisms. From star cannibalism to violent ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Not using such US-centric and colonisation/genocide-invoking historical metaphors would be a better start,’ British scholar ...

Astrophysicists have unearthed a surprising diversity in the ways in which white dwarf stars explode in deep space after ...

David Orta, a Hartnell College student leader, recently traveled to the state capital in Sacramento as a student journalist ...

The first Black graduate of The University of Texas at Austin, Oscar Thompson, studied zoology, as did trailblazing Longhorn ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a football field as they try to determine how likely it is to strike Earth in ...