The discovery of a newborn magnetar inside a distant supernova helps explain why some stellar explosions shine far brighter ...

A powerful "gamma-ray burst" has been seen exploding from merging neutron stars hidden within a previously unknown mini-galaxy leftover from an ancient cosmic crash. The "collision within a ...

Using a phenomenon called "negative light," scientists invisibly transferred data disguised as background thermal radiation.

The universe is a place of unimaginable beauty and wonder—shimmering galaxies that dance across the cosmic stage, nebulae ...

DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has launched a real-time alert system, capable of issuing up to 800,000 alerts per night, to track asteroids and exploding stars.

Webb captured the object in infrared — light wavelengths that are invisible to human eyes but can pierce through thick dust. The new views, in both near and mid-infrared, sharpen details from the ...

"Nebula PMR 1 is a cloud of gas and dust that bears an uncanny resemblance to a brain in a transparent skull." ...

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The KM3NeT collaboration is a large research group involved in the operation of a neutrino telescope network in the deep Mediterranean Sea, with the aim of detecting high-energy neutrino events. These ...

When astronomers glimpsed the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in July 2022, they saw the kind of universe most of them have come to expect. There were dazzling blue bursts of ...

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As data keeps exploding worldwide, scientists are racing to pack more information into smaller and smaller spaces — and a team at the University of Stuttgart may have just unlocked a powerful new ...