The best meteor shower of the year will peak in Metro Vancouver in mid-August.

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Scindian rulers, who ruled Gwalior state, played an important role in Indo-Greek heritage preservation in India.

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Astronomers detect 10 billion-year-old radio waves from a distant galaxy cluster SpARCS1049, revealing a mini-halo that suggests black holes or cosmic collisions energize galaxies.

You may only live once, but some stars die twice. Astronomers have now discovered the first visual evidence of such a stellar event, a dead star that underwent a so-called "double-detonation." ...

New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still important.

Some stars are so primed for greatness that they blow up twice. For the first time, a team of astronomers have found direct visual evidence of a star that met its fiery end by detonating two times ...

A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that astronomers initially struggled to explain.