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New research led by Gonzalo Muñoz-Sanchez at the National Observatory of Athens, published in Nature Astronomy, finds that ...

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The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of an object 9,000 light-years way known as IRAS 05506+2414. It "may be an ...

There was a poetic sense of foreshadowing on the morning of Cooper Flagg's most historic scoring performance of his basketball career. The Mavericks rookie casually knocked down a turnaround sidestep ...

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An international team led by Monash University has uncovered evidence of a rare form of exploding star, helping to shed light on one of the most cataclysmic events in the universe. At the end of their ...

Astronomers have spotted a bizarre cosmic explosion that refuses to play by the rules—and it’s leaving scientists scrambling for answers. GRB 250702B, detected by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and ...

The scientific wonderers at What If visualize the blinding flare and gravitational chaos as the king of planets is pulled into a fusion battle with a tiny star. Iran puts Europe on notice with 'game ...

Christopher W. Stubbs is an experimental physicist and Harvard professor of physics and astronomy. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. FM: You were the inaugural project scientist ...

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