A stunning new discovery reveals that white dwarf stars — once thought to explode in predictable ways — actually detonate through an astonishing variety of mechanisms. From star cannibalism to violent ...

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Butler leads the discovery of 70 of the first 100 extrasolar planets detected. The 6.5-meter Magellan Baade telescope at Las Campanas Observatory sees first light. Two years later the 6.5-meter ...

In a groundbreaking achievement, NASA successfully sent a laser message from the Psyche spacecraft to Earth, spanning 16 ...

The ZTF camera, installed on the 48-inch Schmidt telescope at Palomar Observatory, scans the entire northern sky daily in three optical bands, reaching a depth of 20.5 magnitude—one million ...

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A unique dataset of Type Ia supernovae being released today could change how cosmologists measure the expansion history of the universe. Type Ia supernovae are the dramatic explosions of white ...

In fact, scientists didn't really expect that stars would even be able to still form at all in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, an image of which the James Webb Telescope recently captured in ...

which runs the James Webb Space Telescope, has afforded planetary defense scientists a special, unplanned use of the space observatory, called the Director’s Discretionary Time. That's because ...

It is a 1.45 billion euros ($1.51 billion) project of the European Southern Observatory intergovernmental research organization. "It's going to impact practically all areas of astronomy.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy, astronomers reported Monday. The halo, known as an Einstein ring ...