Dusty structure explains near vanishing of faraway star
Schematic diagrams of the possible configurations discussed for ASASSN-24fw. They are not drawn to scale. The yellow circle is the...
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A time capsule of materials bearing witness to its origin and transformation over billions of years
A scanning electron microscope image of a micrometeorite impact crater in a particle of asteroid Bennu material. Credit: NASA Asteroid...
Detecting neutrino trajectories in real time
The IceCube laboratory is located near the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. This is, for example, where the computers...
JWST shows that GJ 3929b has no atmosphere
An artist's illustration of the rocky exoplanet GJ 3929 b. Credit: NASA As missions like Kepler and TESS discovered more...
Image: Spiral galaxy NGC 7537
Credit: NAOJ; image provided by Masayuki Tanaka The universe captured by Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC), the ultra-wide field of view camera,...
Dark matter in gas giants could collapse into detectable black holes, model suggests
Parameter space for periodic BH formation. Credit: Physical Review D (2025). DOI: 10.1103/qkwt-kd9q More than 5,000 planets have been discovered...
Black holes may be the engines driving the universe’s dark energy
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at Durham and collaborators in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) mission have proposed a...
Brightest-ever fast radio burst allows researchers to identify its origin
Artist’s rendition of CHIME/FRB and its Outriggers localizing FRB 20250316A (RBFLOAT.) Inset: The host galaxy (NGC 4141) as imaged by...
Two different types of asteroids may actually share same origin story
This animation shows how an asteroid would appear during different phases depending on its location relative to the sun, similar...
What happened before the Big Bang? Computational method may provide answers
Complex computational methods could solve cosmic mysteries. Credit: Gabriel Fitzpatrick for FQxI, FQxI (2025) We're often told it is "unscientific"...