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For over 30 years, astronomers have relied on Type Ia supernovae to measure the universe’s expansion. These stellar ...

An international research team led by the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has made significant ...

Lake Tanganyika, located along the East African Rift, is over 400 miles long, the deepest lake in Africa, and holds 16% of ...

A vast cosmic explosion left behind an intricate masterpiece in the sky — delicate pink and orange filaments dancing in the ...

A supernova 2.5 million years ago may have bombarded Earth with cosmic rays, mutating DNA and triggering a virus explosion in ...

The researchers believe that when this supernova exploded, it sent cosmic rays toward Earth for about 100,000 years. These ...

The dazzling spiral galaxy in this Hubble Space Telescope image is UGC 5460, located about 60 million light-years away in the ...

The Einstein Probe was launched in January 2024 to study the high-energy universe, and among its instruments is its ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have identified AT 2023adsv, a supernova that occurred 11.4 billion years ago. This stellar explosion, from a star 20 times the size of the ...

A new study led by recent undergraduate student Caitlyn Nojiri and co-authored by astronomy and astrophysics professor Enrico ...

Isolated by mountains along the East African Rift is Lake Tanganyika. More than 400 miles long, it is the continent's deepest ...