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Over the past few days I re-read Expecting Someone Taller and Who's Afraid of Beowulf, both by Tom Holt. I read them when they first...

Galaxy Blazes with New Stars Born from Close Encounter One doesn't need a Ph.D. in astrophysics to recognize there is something...

Astronomers Release Most Complete Ultraviolet-Light Survey of Nearby Galaxies Much of the light in the universe comes from stars, and...

Stellar Thief Is the Surviving Companion to a Supernova In the fading afterglow of a supernova explosion, astronomers using NASA’s...

Hubble 28th Anniversary Image Captures Roiling Heart of Vast Stellar Nursery For 28 years, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been...

Hubble Uncovers the Farthest Star Ever Seen Through a quirk of nature called “gravitational lensing,” a natural lens in space...

Arrested Development: Hubble Finds Relic Galaxy Close to Home The adventuring cinema archeologist Indiana Jones would be delighted to...

Improved Hubble Yardstick Gives Fresh Evidence for New Physics in the Universe The good news: Astronomers have made the most precise...

Hubble Sees Nearby Asteroids Photobombing Distant Galaxies Photobombing asteroids from our solar system have snuck their way into...

NASA Missions Catch First Light From a Gravitational-Wave Event When some people get in the kitchen, they create a delicious meal but...

NASA's Hubble Observes the Farthest Active Inbound Comet Yet Seen A solitary frozen traveler has been journeying for millions of...

Comet or Asteroid? Hubble Discovers that a Unique Object is a Binary Astronomers categorize the minor bodies in the solar system...

Jackpot! Cosmic Magnifying-Glass Effect Captures Universe's Brightest Galaxies Astronomers were fascinated in the 1980s with the...

Collapsing Star Gives Birth to a Black Hole Every second a star somewhere out in the universe explodes as a supernova. But some...

Hubble Spots Moon Around Third Largest Dwarf Planet Beyond the orbit of Neptune lies a frigid, dark, vast frontier of countless icy...