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Scientists have linked supernovae to the heating of the Milky Way's outer gas layer, revealing a cosmic dance of creation and destruction that shapes our galactic environment. Scientists may have unco ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have observed a galaxy nearly 6.5 billion light-years from Earth, and ...

In the North East we are lucky to have just about the darkest skies possible above our head in Northumberland National Park.

Daniel StrainCU Boulder In a new study, a team of astrophysicists led by CU Boulder has set out to unravel the mysteries of ...

Carbon, essential for life, journeys through space in a galactic recycling process, fueling star and planet formation.

Carbon, the building block of life on Earth, owes its existence to the fiery crucibles of stars. Alongside elements like ...

Looking halfway across the observable universe and expecting to see individual stars is considered a non-starter in astronomy ...

This suggests that NGC 5084 is host to a supermassive black hole tipped on its side, and scientists think it could be ...

The fleeting cosmic firework likely originated within the turbulent magnetosphere surrounding a distant neutron star. Fast ...

Physicists studying a distant galaxy using a telescopic technique called "gravitational lensing" found 44 previously unknown ...