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An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of two new exoplanets, a few times more massive than Earth, ...

Astronomers have spotted an apparent supermassive black hole snacking on a star 600 million light-years away, wandering ...

A new star called T Coronae Borealis may soon appear in the night sky after a thermonuclear flash — and disappear just a few ...

Using NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories, astronomers found the cosmic object in an unexpected place.

Astronomers using NASA’s IXPE satellite have finally cracked a cosmic mystery—how X-rays are produced in the energetic jets ...

A star in a faraway galaxy is sending itself into a spiral of doom, repeatedly plunging through a disk of hot gas surrounding ...

Stunning stellar explosions occur every second across the cosmos – some observable, most too distant to ever know, all of ...

Among the events it can identify are tidal disruption events, where a star gets spaghettified by the enormous gravity of a ...

Astronomers have caught a black hole far from the center of its home galaxy ripping a star to shreds — providing, for the ...

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