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The detection of gravitational waves in 2023 revealed a cosmic event that seemed to overturn known laws of astrophysics, ...

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Scientists traced the Moon's parent planet Theia to the inner Solar System, solving a 4.5-billion-year mystery.

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Astronomers are just beginning to scratch the surface of the complex, and sometimes violent, relationships between planets ...

Research published Tuesday by a Japanese astrophysicist says gamma rays may have been generated by the collision of dark ...

A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.

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The two stars in the nearby system ZTF J2130 are spiraling toward a catastrophic supernova. In the meantime, scientists are ...