A supernova explosion occurred on July 4, 1054, resulting from the death of a star estimated to be nine to eleven times the ...

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Off the coast of a Greek island sits the Antikythera shipwreck, a 2,000-year-old wreck with a story that inspired an Indiana ...

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Type Ia supernovae are triggered by white dwarfs—the fading cores of dead stars. These stellar corpses often steal matter ...

Ruins of the Palaspata temple complex from the millennia-old Tiwanaku civilization are unraveling some mysteries about the ...

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

A science museum in Georgia is studying a piece of a meteor that blazed over the Southeast last week and was later recovered ...

Algol is not a single star but a multiple-star system, primarily consisting of two main components, Algol A and Algol B, which orbit a common center of mass. A third, fainter star, Algol C, also ...

Residents across the United Arab Emirates have been urged to prepare for a prolonged spell of extreme heat as the nation officially steps into the peak of its summer season—‘Jamrat Al Qayth’. The ...

These things take millions of years to go from one stellar neighborhood to another, so this thing has likely been traveling ...

Less than two weeks later, on June 25, reports began to circulate of a second nova blossoming in the southern night sky, this time in the constellation Vela. This nova — later designated V572 Velorum ...