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Yu-Jing Qin, a postdoctoral researcher at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), led a series of spectroscopic ...

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Learn more about the supernova, which is more than a billion years older than the previous record-holder.

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I/ATLAS, comets, asteroids, quasi-moon and more. In 2025, scientists spotted several strange events and objects in the ...

This interstellar vagabond is only the third large interstellar visitor that we have ever discovered — an asteroid or comet ...

Virgil is the reddest Little Red Dot discovered so far, and its hidden black hole may offer a clue to the fate of this ...

New NASA-backed research using the Chandra X-ray Observatory suggests many small galaxies may lack supermassive black holes, ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

Astronomers are a step closer to cracking one of the secrets of dark energy—the mysterious force believed to be causing the universe's accelerated expansion.