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A renegade star exploding in a distant galaxy has forced astronomers to set aside decades of research and …

If you put a Moon rock alongside one from Earth, they usually don’t have a lot in common. …

A group of astronomers, including Penn State scientists, has announced the likely discovery of a highly obscured black …

A team from University College Dublin has unearthed almost 40 previously unknown monuments close to Newgrange, including a …

How do galaxies such as our Milky Way come into existence? How do they grow and change over …

When small, dense stars called white dwarfs explode, they produce bright, short-lived flares called Type Ia supernovae. These …

Astronomers are planning to hunt for cores of exoplanets around white dwarf stars by “tuning in” to the …

Charcoal produced by wildfires could trap carbon for hundreds of years and help mitigate climate change, according to …

Astronomers have found the ghostly remains of one of the Universe’s first stars inside a rare, ancient star …

Victor Camp has spent a lifetime studying volcanic eruptions all over the world, starting in Saudi Arabia, then …