Research

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS captures public imagination; July discovery through December approach reveals how timing, NASA shutdown, and Avi Loeb drove...

How Planets Begin revealed through new laboratory; Southwest Research Institute NOUR Lab recreates interstellar conditions tracing chemical transformation from clouds...

Supermassive black holes absent from dwarf galaxies; Chandra X-ray Observatory survey reveals only 30% of low-mass galaxies contain central black...

Subaru Telescope program discovers massive planet and brown dwarf; OASIS initiative finds distant objects advancing technology for NASA's Roman Space...

Sun's ghost particles observed for first time; Oxford-led research detects solar neutrino carbon-13 interactions using SNO+ detector at SNOLAB underground...

Record-breaking cosmic explosion GRB 250702B lasts nearly seven hours; longest gamma-ray burst observed challenges decades of astronomical theory about burst...

How stars explode in real time revealed through interferometry; CHARA Array captures unprecedented nova images showing complex outflows and delayed...

Decoding dark matter's imprint through gravitational waves; new relativistic model reveals how dark matter around black holes affects EMRI signals...

Stardust found in NASA's Bennu samples reveals sugars, mysterious polymer, and supernova dust—evidence of life's molecular building blocks in early...

Search for habitable worlds guided by new tectonic regime; "episodic-squishy lid" explains Earth's active tectonics and Venus's stagnation, reshaping habitability...