Astronomers have used machine learning to discover seven new quasar lens systems, arrangements where a quasar’s host galaxy bends light from a more distant galaxy behind it. The find more
Astronomers have used machine learning to discover seven new quasar lens systems, arrangements where a quasar’s host galaxy bends light from a more distant galaxy behind it. The find more
Getting time on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the dream of many astronomers. The most powerful space telescope currently in our arsenal, the JWST has been in operation
Since comet 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object, was discovered on 1 July 2025, astronomers worldwide have worked to predict its trajectory. ESA has now improved the comet’s predicted location
Close companions can influence stellar evolution in many ways. While some companions can be detected around young stellar objects, direct observational evidence of companions around asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars
NASA astronaut Jonny Kim took this photo on July 23, 2025, as the International Space Station orbited 259 miles above a cloudy Pacific Ocean southwest of Mexico. Visible in the
Three Chinese astronauts returned from their nation’s space station Friday after more than a week’s delay because the return capsule they had planned to use was damaged, likely from being
Early one February morning in 2025, Adam Borucki discovered something extraordinary behind his warehouse in Poland: a charred metal tank, roughly 1.5 meters across. It had crashed from space during
On Sunday November 2, people in eastern Victoria witnessed a bright streak across the sky followed by a loud sonic boom that felt like an earthquake. The event was captured
A research team has conducted the first systematic search for optical counterparts to a neutrino “multiplet,” a rare event in which multiple high-energy neutrinos are detected from the same direction
Is Saturn’s moon Enceladus habitable? There’s ample evidence that the moon holds a warm ocean underneath its frozen surface, and that the building blocks of life are present in that






