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These are rare occurrences—scientists estimate that the giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy gobbles a star ...

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Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in ...

In an exclusive excerpt from a new book, Trey Anastasio, John Popper and other jam band stars reflect on August 9th, 1995, ...

The universe is a happening place—full of exploding stars, erupting black holes, zipping asteroids, and much more. The Rubin Observatory released its first images last week, and they’re stunning—vast, ...

A university partnership project which has involved members of the public in identifying cosmic explosions has announced its first major ...

The question of where atoms come from requires a lot of physics to be answered completely – and even then, physicists only have good guesses to explain how some atoms are formed.

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like the enormous new Vera Rubin Observatory. Here's what it could reveal ...