"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of ...

A research team from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with domestic and ...

In a massive explosion of a black hole ripping apart a star, a dense gas cocoon was found surrounding the explosion, ...

In tropical forests across Central and South America, a quiet tree hides one of the most violent forms of seed dispersal ...

As the cloud cleared, Air Force bombers dropped in to gather air samples. Researchers hoped that the radioactive fallout ...

What we know of the birth of a black hole has traditionally aligned with our perception of black holes themselves: dark, ...

Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) instruments, the U.S.

Flight tracking data spotted the US Air Force's 'nuclear sniffer' soaring through several states on Thursday, raising concern ...

The massive sunspot that sparked an "extreme" geomagnetic storm in May 2024 unleashed hundreds of other dangerous solar ...

The blast may have been a kilonova — a type of neutron star merger — in the wake of a more traditional supernova.

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

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