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The distant universe might be littered with supermassive stars between 1000 and 10,000 times the mass of the sun, which could ...

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A Japanese astronomer believes he has finally captured the first direct glimpse of dark matter, a discovery that, if ...

Researchers used the MIRI instrument onboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to identify the presence of ultraviolet ...

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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Astronomers have identified a tightly bound pair of stars that are spiraling toward a catastrophic merger, turning a distant ...

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

In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

Astronomers have uncovered clues to a red giant’s chaotic past by detecting subtle stellar vibrations that hint at a long-ago collision and an unexpectedly rapid spin. Astronomers at the (IfA) have pi ...