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An automated data-sharing system co-developed by SpaceX and American radio astronomers promises to protect radio telescopes ...
For the first time, scientists have directly tracked the slow transformation of a dying star over more than a ...
Astronomers found hidden cosmic channels, like tunnels, connecting our solar system to distant stars, reshaping views of ...
A weird and extremely violent new type of supernova in which a massive star was "stripped to the bone," offers a rare glimpse ...
In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, astronomers reexamined the size and brightness of Earendel, ...
When people picture space, they often imagine endless black emptiness dotted with planets and stars. But new research shows ...
That cosmologists cannot agree on one of the most elementary facts about the universe is striking enough. But that ...
When the James Webb Space Telescope first came online in 2022, it immediately spotted something astronomers had never seen ...
Astronomers have discovered what may be a massive star exploding while trying to swallow a black hole companion, offering an ...
During the 2025 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, sidewalk astronomers brought a sense of hope into Washington, D.C.
"We're now entering an era where we can automatically catch these rare events as they happen, not just after the fact." ...
In 2009, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory released a captivating image: a pulsar and its surrounding nebula that is shaped ...