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Astronomer and Pluto mission leader S. Alan Stern explores how the field has transformed during his decades-long career.

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Astronomers discovered a rare ultra-massive white dwarf forged in a stellar smash-up and unmasked only by Hubble’s ...

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The key test passed by sPHENIX to prove it is ready to measure the properties of quark-gluon plasma is called a "standard ...

An exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art charts the development of astronomical knowledge across continents before and after the Scientific Revolution.

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Mega-constellations built by SpaceX, Amazon and other companies could carry thousands of sensors that could aid research into gamma rays, space weather and other subjects.

A mysterious ring invisible at all wavelengths except radio could be a trace of a dramatically unstable star shedding its skin.