A recently detected flash of energy appears to have emanated from the wreckage of colliding galaxies, according to an international team of astronomers led by Penn State scientists. The burst, known ...
(THE CONVERSATION) Billions of light years away in a remote part of the universe, two neutron stars – the ultradense remnants of dead stars – collided. The catastropic cosmic event sent light and ...
Nearly a year after the tender was floated, India's ambitious Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) project in Maharashtra's Hing ...
A sudden, mysterious burst of bright light in the sky could be from a black hole devouring a vast, unusually bare star. In 2018, astronomers spotted a new kind of cosmic explosion that became brighter ...
By analyzing the data from various space observatories and ground-based telescopes, European astronomers have performed a ...
The Cat's Eye Nebula is located 4,400 light-years away in the constellation Draco.
New studies reveal how metallicity and stellar evolution determine whether massive stars expand into red supergiants prior to Type II supernova explosions.
In October 2025, the Trump administration made a controversial proposal to nine major colleges and universities, including Dartmouth College and the University of Virginia. The administration offered ...
The first installment in a series looking at the history and pending redevelopment of the Warner & Swasey Building.
The catalogue of all the new 128 events observed by LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA from May 2023 to January 2024 is being published. It reveals an even greater variety of binary pairs producing gravitational ...
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Mysterious 'dots' discovered by JWST may be the 1st stars in the universe on the verge of collapse
A new study suggests that "little red dots" spied by the James Webb telescope could be the universe's short-lived first ...
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