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"We found something never seen before and, more importantly, entirely unexpected," team leader Simone Scaringi of Durham ...

Recently discovered Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) will make its closest approach to the sun and Earth in late April and could ...

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It’s a bit mind-bending to realise that everything we know about the scale of the universe comes from people stuck […] ...

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Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

The CosmicWatch device costs only $100 to make, making it accessible for both high school students and spacecraft operators.

KEY OBSERVATIONS Light from a dead star exploded ten billion years ago, yet it reached Earth not once, but several times, ...

"This was many times more energetic than any similar event and more than any known explosion powered by the collapse of a ...