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New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

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University of Arizona astrophysicist Erika Hamden takes readers on a romp through a "Weird Universe" in her debut popular ...

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The ALMA Observatory, one of the world’s most advanced astronomical facilities, has uncovered unprecedented details about the ...

New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

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Scientists have been working on ways to find new worlds far from Earth, and this strange method theorized decades ago has ...

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A groundbreaking discovery has been made by astronomers who uncovered Eos, a dark molecular cloud near Earth, using ultraviolet light detection to reveal ...