Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A colossal structure in the distant Universe is defying our understanding of how the Universe evolved. In light that has traveled ...

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You live in a galaxy packed with black holes that never announce themselves. They do not blaze in X-rays or glow with stolen gas. They hide. Astronomers find them by watching the stars that dance ...

A billowing pair of nearly symmetrical loops of dust and gas mark the death throes of an ancient red-giant star, as captured by Gemini South, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, operated ...

Astronomers have decoded the hidden past of a distant red giant star by listening to tiny vibrations in its light, revealing clues of a dramatic cosmic history. The star, which quietly orbits a ...

Giant, dense structures have been discovered beneath the surface of Mars and they are leaving experts both mystified and excited. The first of these, confirmed by researchers in a fascinating paper, ...

Just a few hundred light years from Earth, a swollen red giant is quietly forcing astronomers to rethink how stars seed the galaxy with the raw materials for planets and life. New observations of the ...