New instrument at SOAR achieves first light with observations of remarkable binary star system
The SOAR Telescope at Cerro Pachon. Credit: CTIO/SOAR/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Paredes The SOAR Telescope, located on Cerro Pachón in Chile,…
Constraining Proxima b’s atmosphere, orbit and albedo with RISTRETTO
Artist’s impression of Proxima b. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser What new methods can be employed to help astronomers distinguish…
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…
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…
Dedicated amateur discovers supernova in remote galaxy
Filipp at his laptop. Credit: Filipp Romanov. Astronomy is increasingly becoming an online affair. Recent discoveries of interstellar…
Twisted graphene reveals double-dome superconductivity controlled by electric field
Superconducting phase in twisted trilayer graphene (T = 100 mK). Credit: Nature Physics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-03040-2 Superconductivity is…
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.…