Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have helped uncover new clues about the longest-lasting cosmic explosion ever observed, a gamma-ray burst that lasted nearly seven hours.

You’ve likely heard both terms – astronomy and astrology – used when we talk about the sky, stars, and planets. But did you know they are not the same and are completely different sciences? In this ...

Modern astronomy formally commenced in 1609 with Galileo Galilei's revolutionary telescopic observations, which transformed the field from basic celestial viewing to systematic scientific inquiry. Key ...

Scientists working with the James Webb Space Telescope discovered three unusual astronomical objects in early 2025, which may be examples of dark stars. The concept of dark stars has existed for some ...

Waukesha, Wis. — All matter and antimatter should have annihilated each other and formed an enormous flash of radiation early in the universe’s history. But matter survived. Could matter and ...

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The nature of time has plagued thinkers for as long as we've tried to understand the world we live in. Intuitively, we know what time is, but try to explain it, and we end up tying our minds in knots.