In a 218-to-214 vote, the House of Representatives passed a sweeping bill that extends tax cuts and slashes social safety-net ...

For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the centuries-old remains of supernova SNR 0509-67.5 with the European Southern ...

European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope took photos a rare supernova roughly 300 years after it happened ...

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