What do we do if SETI is successful?
Image of the Allen Telescope Array, one of the observatories set up for SETI. Credit: Seth Shostak / Science Photo...
Astro
Alien civilizations may only be detectable for a cosmic blink of an eye
How the accelerating rate of technology advancement shortens the window of opportunity to detect a civilization. Credit: Michael A. Garrett...
How we sharpened the James Webb telescope’s vision from a million kilometers away
A 'selfie' taken during Webb's testing on Earth. Credit: Ball Aerospace After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued...
What happened to those ‘little red dots’ Webb observed?
Images of little red dots seen in several deep-sky surveys of JWST. Credit: ASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Dale Kocevski (Colby College) When the James...
Follow-up observations by Webb confirm GRB 250702B is most energetic cosmic explosion ever recorded
Spatially resolved properties of the GRB 250702B host galaxy, and supernova limits. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.22778 Considering the immense...
AI-powered model enhances atmospheric calibration precision for astronomical observation and geodetic measurement
Credit: Zelch Csaba from Pexels Researchers from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a...
Planet formation depends on when it happens: New model shows why
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in...
Mysterious glow in Milky Way could be evidence of dark matter
Normalized density projections of the bulges. The columns show dark matter, stellar, and quadratic dark matter densities, respectively. Only stars...
Unexpected discovery on Saturn’s moon challenges view on chemistry before life emerged
Researchers have long been interested in Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and its icy environment, which harbors lakes, seas, sand dunes...
Team uncovers intrinsic binary fraction of blue horizontal-branch stars
Classification of BHB stars based on their positions on the Kiel diagram. The magenta dashed line marks the boundary distinguishing...