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Astronomers have finally traced a strange class of radio signals—long a cosmic mystery—to a binary star system made up of a white dwarf and a red dwarf. These findings may transform what scientists ...

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For years, scientists have detected strange radio pulses lasting from seconds to minutes, coming from stars in the Milky Way. There were many theories about what could be causing them, but until ...

A newly-discovered spiral galaxy, dubbed the Big Wheel, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang – far earlier, considering its size, than astronomers thought possible. Themiya Nanayakkara ...

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Astronomers have for the first time traced mysterious radio pulses in the Milky Way to a unique star system—a binary pair consisting of a white dwarf and a red dwarf. The discovery changes the nature ...