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The early universe has a lot more massive black holes than suspected.

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After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A ...

Chinese researchers have braved the cold and harsh environment of Antarctica in order to get a unique view of star formation ...

New insights are emerging into one of astronomy’s most perplexing signals. An international research team led in part by ...

Donald G. York, an astronomer with the University of Chicago who helped revolutionize the field as a co-founder of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and made pioneering contributions to the study of the ...

Mock observations test the performance of the Chinese Space Station Telescope as the 2-meter-class observatory moves closer ...

An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

Humans are captivated by the idea of finding life elsewhere in the universe – and even more by the idea that life, if found, might resemble the complex, animal life here on Earth. One of the easiest ...