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After running a new kind of computer simulation, scientists believe the comet originated from a rarely seen corner of the ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

Observations from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal that Jupiter’s strong magnetic field and the unique properties of its plasma ...

When white dwarfs—the hot remnants of stars like our sun—are orbited closely by another star, they sometimes steal mass away ...

Astronomers have traced a mysterious blast of X-rays to a star that, like a cosmic action hero, just refused to die.

Dark matter makes up 85% of the universe, but researchers, including Vera Rubin herself, historically have had a hard time ...

New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

Around seven asteroids or comets are thought to hit Saturn every year, but we have never spotted one in the act. Now, it ...

For only the third time in recorded history, an interstellar object has crossed into our solar system, creating quite the ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

The interstellar comet 3I/Atlas is the fastest and largest of its kind, giving astronomers a rare glimpse into extrasolar ...