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Watch a star get destroyed by a supermassive black hole in the 1st simulation of its kind
Stars that wander too close to supermassive black holes may be violently undone in a process called "spaghettification." New simulations provide the most detailed look ever at the gory interaction.
Astronomers find black hole's favorite snack: 'The star appears to be living to die another day'
Astronomers have pinned down a faraway black hole's snack schedule after watching it devour a star across years.
Intense solar storm opens '2-way highway' for charged particles, sparking rare auroras on the sun
Last year, Earth spewed charged particles into the sun in a rare cosmic event that has surprised scientists.
The blue supermoon will 'swallow' Saturn tonight — here's when the rare 'lunar occultation' begins
Here's everything you need to know to see the moon as it occults, or passes completely in front of, the bright planet Saturn tonight.
'Final parsec problem' that makes supermassive black holes impossible to explain could finally have a solution
A new study helps solve the "final parsec problem" that has made supermassive black hole formation impossible to explain, pointing to a strange form of dark matter as the key.
Why is a 'once-in-a-decade' Supermoon Blue Moon happening twice in 2 years?
A 'once in a blue moon' event might not be as infrequent as you think.
The sun might've just had a record-breaking number of visible sunspots
On Aug. 8, NASA scientists may have spotted a record number of sunspots when hundreds of individual spots were estimated to occur within 24 hours.
Catastrophic collision between Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies may not happen after all, new study hints
Astronomers have long predicted that a collision between our galaxy and nearby Andromeda could be inevitable, but new calculations suggest this may be an over exaggeration.
