Using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, Chinese astronomers have observed a gamma-ray binary system known as PSR ...

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One of the longest stellar dimming events ever observed was likely caused by the gigantic saucer-like rings of either an ...

You might think galaxies can’t ever find each other in our runaway cosmos, but it turns out gravity can sometimes overcome ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Scientists are observing the behavior of a supermassive black hole that is ...

When young stars mix with neutron stars, things get messy.

This idea is called the big bang model—which is an unfortunate name because it brings to mind a cosmos expanding like an ...

A vast, flat sheet of dark matter may solve the long-standing mystery of why our neighboring galaxy Andromeda is speeding ...

The “send out/send away” command is meant to teach dogs to move confidently away from the handler toward a target, but many ...

Two ways of measuring how fast the universe is expanding disagree, a puzzle known as the Hubble tension. Tiny magnetic fields ...

Scientists discovered that galaxy clusters are about twice as heavy as previously assumed. The additional mass comes mainly from neutron stars and stellar black holes and also explains the observed ...