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Researchers at Swinburne University of Technology have contributed to a landmark study that complicates our understanding of the universe. The work is published on the arXiv preprint server. The Dark ...

Cosmic dust—like dust on Earth—comprises groupings of molecules that have condensed and stuck together in a grain. But the exact nature of dust creation in the universe has long been a mystery. Now, ...

Astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light years away. These two stars are on a collision course to explode as a type 1a supernova, appearing ...