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Astronomers have used a new type of extreme supernova in which a massive star was stripped right "down to the bone" to better ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found an unknown moon orbiting Uranus, bringing the planet’s total to ...

For the first time, scientists have directly tracked the slow transformation of a dying star over more than a ...

Astronomers from Seoul National University, South Korea and elsewhere report the detection of 62 new luminous quasars as part ...

In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, astronomers reexamined the size and brightness of Earendel, ...

A team of astronomers led by Dr. Phil Massey of Lowell Observatory has taken the sharpest look yet at one of the heaviest ...

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical ...

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An ‘extremely stripped supernova’ confirms the existence of a key feature of physicists’ models of how stars produce the ...