Astrophysics

Largest birthplace of planets; Hubble reveals massive chaotic protoplanetary disk IRAS 23077+6707 spanning 400 billion miles with asymmetric filaments and...

1st cosmic map of the entire sky; NASA's SPHEREx telescope completes unprecedented infrared survey in 102 colors, revealing galaxy distribution...

Planet-eating stars hint at Earth's ultimate fate; Research reveals aging stars destroy close-in planets through tidal interactions, preview of our...

Civilizations communicate like fireflies; ASU study proposes firefly-inspired signals as framework for detecting extraterrestrial intelligence beyond anthropocentric bias. Arizona State...

Collisions in the Fomalhaut system revealed by Hubble; two massive planetesimal impacts detected 20 years apart demonstrate active debris disk...

Very Low Earth orbit satellites expand capabilities; VLEO technology at 60-250 miles altitude enables higher-resolution imaging, faster communications, and advanced...

Closest approach to Earth December 19; interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS passes 168 million miles away marking rare opportunity studying third confirmed...

3I/ATLAS displays greenish hue in Gemini North images; interstellar comet emerges from solar passage showing diatomic carbon emissions as it...

A feasting black hole demonstrates frame-dragging effect; observations of tidal disruption event AT2020afhd confirm Einstein's century-old predictions about spacetime warping....

Super Jupiters look like; new research reveals massive exoplanets have chaotic atmospheres unlike Jupiter, with turbulent storms instead of banded...