Betelgeuse’s surface reveals a shape that surprises astronomers
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An artist’s illustration showing the Sun and Earth. Located in the constellation of Orion,…
How The James Webb Telescope Shows Us What The Dawn Of A New Solar System Looks Like
For the first time in human history, we’re watching a new solar system come to life. Not in…
ALMA Telescope Finds SETI Has Searched 21 Times More Stars Than Anyone Knew
For six decades, SETI researchers have been pointing their radio telescopes at a narrow slice of the electromagnetic…
AI’s Threat to Mental Health Care
The U.S. is in the midst of an acute mental health crisis. In late May, the Centers for…
“Beyond the limit”: one million satellites and mirrors in space pose grave threat to the night sky
Press Release 1 July 2026 A new European Southern Observatory (ESO) study has found that current proposals to…
A Hidden Galaxy Called Shadow Blaster May Explain One of Astronomy’s Biggest Mysteries
A conceptual figure of this study. The background diagram represents the history of the Universe stretching from the…
After 50 Years, Astronomers Finally Found What the Milky Way’s Black Hole Was Hiding
Astronomers have uncovered long-sought evidence that the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole is producing a wind, revealing…
Astronomers Trace Elusive High-Energy Neutrino to Star-Forming Galaxy in Early Universe
JCMT0402-0424, a dusty starburst galaxy around 11 billion light-years away, is the strongest candidate yet for the source…
Astronomers Finally Find Milky Way’s Missing Black Hole Wind
After a 50-year search, astronomers have uncovered evidence that Sagittarius A* — the 4.3-million-solar-mass black hole that resides…
Weighing Newborn Planets Using Their Dusty Fingerprints
Simulation of a planet embedded in a protoplanetary disc, causing disc material to pile up in a ring…
Comet 3I/ATLAS Formed in an Ultra-Cold Alien Star System
Water in the Solar System has a unique chemical signature: it is deuterated, that is, enriched in deuterium,…
3I/ATLAS is Unusually Rich in Methanol, ALMA Observations Show
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have detected hydrogen cyanide (nitrogen-bearing organic molecule commonly seen in…