New UNLV-led research is helping to unravel clues to a cosmic mystery that has eluded scientists for decades. Cataclysmic ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Unlike the lonely sun, about half the stars in our Milky Way galaxy are in a long-term committed relationship with another star, orbiting each another in a celestial marriage ...

LOS ANGELES - Some might complain over a lack of excitement in our solar system but a recent discovery by MIT astronomers reminds us why we should be grateful for a "boring" location among the stars.

A team of citizen scientist made a truly shocking discovery when they unexpectedly detected a truly cataclysmic event in the early days of the universe.

How to explain Saturn's unique tilt and the youth of its rings? A recent hypothesis puts forward the idea of a cataclysmic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers have teamed up with citizen scientists to discover a brand-new exploding star that's greedily feeding on a stellar ...

Astronomers have witnessed evidence of an extremely violent collision between planets, and it resembles the event in Earth's ...

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