You wouldn’t expect the cosmos to come to a small town in rural Manitoba. The cosmos, frankly, has better places to be.

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The most energetic events in the universe are gamma ray bursts, beams of radiation so intense they could wipe out all life on ...

Using ESA's Gaia satellite and NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers from the Ege University in ...

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Scientists imaged the heart of the OJ 287 galaxy, uncovering a curved plasma jet around what appears to be two merging ...

Nebulas are spectacular clouds of gas and dust where stars come to life and fade away. Their radiant beauty has captivated ...

A team of astronomers have found a mysterious object in the distant universe that could be dark matter or an inactive smaller ...

After a century of observations spanning the breadth of the cosmos and theoretical insights that push humanity's vision of ...

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Astronomers have taken their clearest look yet at how some of the biggest stars in our galaxy are born—and it turns out the ...