The numbers arrived with the dispassion of a telemetry readout: 10.5 years of observations, 200 billion individual detections, a complete infrared survey of the entire sky. For more than a decade ...

A tiny, dense stellar corpse in a nearby galaxy is pumping out so much energy that, on paper, it should have blown itself apart long ago. The object, cataloged as M82 X-2, blazes in X-rays up to ...

The Necklace Nebula (PN G054.2-03.4) formed when one star in a close binary system expanded into a red giant and engulfed its ...

In A Nutshell A star 3,260 light-years away dimmed by over 95% for six months, one of the longest stellar blackouts ever ...

But what if something out there has been sending a steady signal toward Earth for decades — and we’re only now realizing it?

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