Humanity has been leaking radio noise into the cosmos for just over a century, and those signals now form a vast, expanding ...

The journey of Earth’s radio signals began over a century ago, following the first intentional broadcast by Reginald Aubrey Fessenden in 1906. These signals have been traveling across the Milky Way ...

A team of astronomers has reconstructed the history of our local universe to understand the origin of the nearest stars. In a study published today in Nature, they describe an amorphous, ...

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The Earth sits in a 1,000-light-year-wide void surrounded by thousands of young stars — but how did those stars form? In a paper appearing Wednesday in Nature, astronomers at the Center for ...

The Local Bubble, a large area of space containing our solar system, is a cavity created by supernova explosions. These explosions triggered the formation of many young stars in our galactic ...

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The Earth sits in a 1,000 light-year-wide void surrounded by thousands of young stars, but how did those stars form? “This is really an origin story; for the first time we can explain how all nearby ...