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"Until now, it was unknown what type of star would remain after the merger." ...

A spectacular new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate structures inside the Helix Nebula, where a ...

The September 2025 issue featured "A guide to beginner's guides," a reminiscence and description of some the books for ...

A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to ...

A distant Sun-like star suddenly went dark for months, stunning astronomers who quickly realized something massive was ...

Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...

The neural network approach uses multiple or “deep” layers that learn to identify increasingly complex features in data. The ...

Astronomers used to rely on chance to catch a glimpse of fleeting explosions in space. A fresh approach to watching these ...

Astronomers have discovered a vast, dense cluster of massive galaxies just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, each forming ...

V1674 Herculis was a record-breaker. It erupted in the constellation Hercules on June 12, 2021, and skyrocketed to peak ...

An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...