SPACE | Astronomers find mystery astronomical object in ‘mass gap’
WASHINGTON -- An international research collaboration has detected a mystery object inside the puzzling area known as the "mass gap"...
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SPACE | Astronomers discover new fast radio burst
BEIJING, CHINA -- Astronomers have recently discovered a new fast radio burst (FRB), mysterious signals believed to be from the...
SPACE | Astronomers to stream asteroid flyby
NANJING, CHINA -- Chinese astronomers will stream a close encounter with a huge asteroid heading toward Earth Wednesday. Known as...
SPACE | Asteroid to fly by with zero chance of hitting Earth
NANJING, CHINA -- A Chinese expert warned on Thursday against panic over an asteroid heading toward Earth, saying that there...
SPACE | Scientists detect largest explosion since Big Bang
SYDNEY -- Scientists in Australia have detected the largest explosion seen in the Universe since the Big Bang, which emitted...
SPACE | Ground-based solar telescope takes first close-up images of sun’s surface
WASHINGTON -- A U.S. solar telescope released its first images of the sun's surface with unprecedented details. The U.S. National...
SPACE | Researchers find first asteroid inside Venus orbit
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA -- Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have discovered a rare asteroid orbiting snugly within...
SPACE | Scientists develop new method to search for life on exoplanets
WASHINGTON -- Scientists developed a new technique to detect oxygen in exoplanet atmospheres, which may accelerate the search for life....
SPACE | Astronomers discover unexpected huge stellar black hole
BEIJING, CHINA -- A Chinese-led research team has discovered a surprisingly huge stellar black hole about 14,000 light-years from Earth...
SPACE | Jet-like spurts lend clue to a solar mystery
WASHINGTON -- An international team led by Chinese astronomers shed light on a mystery in solar physics: why temperatures in...