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"This result marks a turning point: instead of just detecting these mysterious flashes, we can now see exactly where they're coming from." ...

Fall often doesn’t kick in until late September or early October. Daytime highs can stay summer-like well into September, but crisp nights and the first real leaf color show up around the first week ...

Built between 3600 and 2500 BCE, Malta’s Mnajdra temple complex ranks among the world’s oldest religious sites. Aligned with solstices and equinoxes, its walls hold 179 drilled dots linked to lunar ...

Chang Kee Jung, professor and chair in the department of physics and astronomy at Stony Brook University, will give a talk called Capturing Innovations and Underlying Physics in Sports, presented by ...

Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet ...

Sporting the world’s largest digital camera, the new telescope is poised to help solve some of the universe’s biggest mysteries.

When Rutgers theoretical astrophysicist Charles Keeton first saw an unusual picture shared by his colleague, he was intrigued ...

Monday is the first day of Fall for us in the northern hemisphere. It is the first day where there will be more darkness than ...

Dark energy—the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the universe ...

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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered mysterious “little red dots” that may not be galaxies at all, but a whole new type of object: black hole stars. These fiery spheres, ...