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Around seven asteroids or comets are though to hit Saturn ever year, but we have never spotted one in the act. Now, it seems ...
Scientists have observed a new type of black hole that is too heavy to have been born from a star but still too slim to … The ...
Astronomers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), an autonomous institution of the Department of Science and ...
"This tangible evidence of a double detonation not only contributes towards solving a long-standing mystery, but also offers ...
Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...
Newfound interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be carrying pristine material from early in the Milky Way’s star-forming history.
We live in a world defined by inches, feet and miles (or centimeters, meters and kilometers, if you prefer), and it’s not difficult for most of us to ...
Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic ...
The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...
Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...