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Bonn, Germany (SPX) Mar 29, 2023 - A white dwarf star can explode as a supernova when its mass exceeds the limit of about 1.4 solar masses. A team led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Garching and inv

Researchers have discovered a terrestrial mass planet and a Neptune mass planet free-floating in the Milky Way. Are there billions more?

Dwarf galaxies are 99% dark matter

Thanks to its infrared vision, JWST can peer through the obscuring gas and dust that often hides young stars.

Take a self-drive tour of the lake district on the northern edge of Patagonia, or admire jaguars in the Pantanal, the worlds largest wetland and a biodiversity hotspot.

A recent Hubble Space Telescope image reveals a view of the star-studded open cluster NGC 376, which is located in the Small Magellanic Cloud nearly 200,000 light-years away.

With only 12 percent of the world's population living south of the Equator, the jewels in the southern night sky can stay half-secret. Some stars,

The stellar production at Asolo Repertory Theatre captures the intellectual excitement of astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt's discovery — but also the cost.

The Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) was a telescope mounted on a Boeing 747 that studied infrared light in the universe.

WASHINGTON and SEATTLE, Jan. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- New research suggests that the High Velocity Cloud (HVC) Complex M may be the result of a su...