International collaboration doubles detection of cosmic collisions
Credit: CC0 Public Domain An international team of researchers has announced a significant advancement in gravitational-wave astronomy, with the detection...
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Unusual CO₂-rich disk detected around young star challenges planet formation models
An image of the star-forming region NGC 6357 with the young star XUE 10. Observations with JWST/MIRI reveal a planet-forming...
An astronomer explains the case for life around white dwarfs
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The sun will someday die. This will happen when it runs out of hydrogen fuel in...
White dwarf stars could create surprisingly common long lived habitable zones
A comparison between the white dwarf IK Pegasi B (centre), its A-class companion IK Pegasi A (left) and the Sun...
TESS spotted 3I/ATLAS two months before it was discovered. It was even active then
Hubble image of 3I/ATLAS captured in late July. Credit: NASA/ESA One of the advantages of having so many telescopes watching...
CHORD will be a huge leap forward for Canadian radio astronomy
Credit: National Research Council of Canada Construction is underway of CHORD, the most ambitious radio telescope project ever built on...
Earth probably needed supplies from space
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Earth is so far the only known planet on which life exists—with liquid water and a...
A new theory of the universe’s origins without inflation
Credit: NASA/WMAP Science Team How exactly did the universe start and how did these processes determine its formation and evolution?...
Scientists confirm presence of standing shocks in black hole accretion flows
The distribution of Lorentz factor (log (𝛾−1), upper) and magnetization (log (𝜎), lower). Credit: The Astrophysical Journal (2025). DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/adf635...
Asteroid Bennu is like a time capsule from the early solar system
A mosaic image of asteroid Bennu made from images of the asteroid captured by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of...