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SpaceX seeks approval to launch up to one million AI data-centre satellites, but astronomers warn the plan could trigger Kessler syndrome and threaten global communications.

Superluminous supernovas are the brightest stellar explosions in the universe. Astronomers may have found a mechanism that can trigger these events.

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb says interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS likely comes from the Milky Way's disc, as astronomers grapple with its bizarre chemistry and disputed age.

Wobbling signal could explain some extremely bright supernovae ...

ESA's Planetary Defence team allay fears 100-metre-wide object could hit Earth's moon and disrupt satellites ...

A supernova is one of the most powerful events that can happen in the Universe - we are talking, after all, about a star exploding - and because of that, they have always been actively researched by astronomers. But what a team of such people managed ...

A fleet of NASA missions has likely uncovered a collision between two ultradense stars in a tiny galaxy buried in a huge stream of gas. Astronomers have never ...

A rapidly brightening burst of light called AT 2024wpp, or "the Whippet", is baffling astronomers. One explanation is that it is the result of an exotic star falling into a black hole ...