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Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin exited an airlock to move a different airlock during a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station on May 3.

The satellite-protecting payload fairing on SpaceX's Falcon Heavy made dramatic waves when it came back to Earth after the powerful rocket's launch last weekend.

Astronomers have found the fingerprints of material dispersed by the supernova deaths of the universe's first stars in distant gas clouds.

For the first time, astronomers observed a dying star engulfing a planet.

Astronomers may have for the first time witnessed a sun-like star devouring a planet, shedding light on the fate that will befall Earth in about 5 billion years when our dying sun swells to engulf our world.

‘These findings bring us one step closer to understanding the nature of the first stars that formed after the Big Bang,’ the European Southern Observatory says of the University of Florence study

In a glimpse of the dismal fate awaiting Earth, scientists for the first time have observed a star, bloated in its old age, swallowing a Jupiter-like planet, then expelling some material into space in an energetic belch. Researchers said on Wednesday the star was in the early stages of what…

Scientists for the first time have caught a star in the act of swallowing a planet

Scientists believe planet the size of Jupiter plunged into star, causing ‘insanely bright’ burst of light