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Out of the limelight, theoretical physicists continue to seek a mathematical model that can explain the universe's particles and forces.

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Distant, ancient galaxies are giving scientists more hints that a mysterious force called dark energy may not be what they ...

The Friday before this one, I had a fantastic opportunity to serve as resident astronomer for the evening at Leonardo’s Children’s Museum’s Milky Way Mixer.

Now, a new study published Nov. 11 in Nature Astronomy has revisited the Voyager 2 data and discovered that Uranus was ...

Astronomers have stumbled upon a pair of massive black holes in a distant galaxy that are triggering unusual bursts of light. These bright emissions, which appear to peak on a regular cycle, may be ...

Scientists announced Thursday that they had taken the first zoomed-in image of a dying star beyond our galaxy. The star is ...

A pride of lions had surrounded a buffalo in the Ruaha National Park in Tanzania and the battle seemed decided. But then the ...

Astronomers have taken the first close-up image of a star beyond our galaxy, and it’s a “monster star” surrounded by a cocoon ...

For the first time, astronomers have captured a close-up image of a dying star beyond our Milky Way. This milestone, achieved by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer ...

Astronomers captured an unprecedented image of WOH G64, a red supergiant star in its final life stages, using advanced ...