Gaia telescope discovers our galaxy’s great wave
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia space telescope has revealed that our Milky Way galaxy has a giant…
A better metric for estimating an exoplanet’s habitability
An example of remote sensing data compared to conditions on a real world. Left: The observed surface habitability…
Surveying Io’s Surface with the UNAGI lander
Io imaged by NASA’s Juno Spacecraft in December 2023. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Image processing by Emma Wälimäki © CC…
Millions of buildings at risk from sea level rise, analysis finds
Exposure to building inundation as a function of LSR. Credit: npj Urban Sustainability (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s42949-025-00259-z Sea level…
Neolithic Chinese culture artifacts show systematic human bone modification
Worked human skull with two perforations and a high degree of polish. Credit: Sawada et al. 2025 In…
Gaia solves mystery of tumbling asteroids and finds new way to probe their interiors
An illustration of two colliding asteroids. Credit: Europlanet/T Roger. Whether an asteroid is spinning neatly on its axis…
Supercomputer simulations pierce mysteries of galactic nuclei
Supermassive black holes constantly pump dust, gas and heat into their environments, creating accretion disks like this one.…
Fungi may have set the stage for life on land hundreds of millions of years earlier than thought
Clear fossil evidence can be found most of the five major groups—here we see a Dickinsonia fossil, providing…
Spontaneous emission behaves contrary to predictions in photonic time crystals
Spontaneous emission decay rate (left) and spontaneous emission excitation rate (right) when a quantum emitter (or atom) is…
Infrared data from the James Webb Telescope reveals more structural details of M87’s black hole jet
RGB image of M87 obtained using F356W, F150W, and F090W observations. Credit: Astronomy & Astrophysics (2025). DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202556577…