Stars once thought to provide evidence of hypernovae may instead owe their unusual chemistry to ordinary supernovae that ...

Astronomers have observed a stellar vampire feeding on a 'failed star' brown dwarf companion for the first time, and this ...

A cosmic explosion detected on July 4, 2025, began with a 0.4-second gamma-ray burst and then continued glowing in softer ...

Four stars with unusual chemical ingredients may not need exceptionally powerful explosions to explain their origins. New ...

A pulsar appeared to be slowing down around 100 times faster than expected. Scientists eventually traced the mystery to a ...

Rocket Lab is scaling from small-lift Electron launches to medium-lift Neutron, targeting mega-constellation deployments. I ...

Niobium hidden in old Hubble spectra of the white dwarf HS 0209+0832 suggests a gas giant built from the material its star ...

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre star system about 300 light-years from Earth where a small star is slowly devouring a nearby brown dwarf, an object too massive to be a planet but too small to be ...

IntroductionIn this series, I am testing the hypothesis that "the universe might be a simulation running on a massive ...

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Historically, there have been at least two controversial precedents involving a Nobel Prize in science and a key research ...