Pleiades star cluster revealed as just one part of a vast stellar family
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered that the famous Pleiades...
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Superheated star factory discovered in early universe
Glowing deep red from the distant past, the galaxy Y1 shines because of dust grains heated by newly-formed stars (circled...
Never mind rogue planets—their rogue moons could support life
An artist's illustration of an Earth-mass rogue planet drifting through space. New research shows that rogue planets sent off into...
How to spot life in the clouds on other worlds
Artist concept of a cloudy Earth-like exoplanet with colorful biota in the clouds. Credit: Adam B. Langeveld/Carl Sagan Institute. Adapted...
New deployable structures could help astronauts maintain muscle mass in space
Jeffery Lipton, a professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at Northeastern, was one of several researchers who boarded a parabolic...
Observations suggest GRB origin for fast X-ray transient detected by Einstein Probe
The location of the counterparts to EP241107a in optical and radio bands is shown. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2511.02562 Astronomers...
China’s Tianwen-1 orbiter spots 3I/ATLAS
The image of 3I/ATLAS interstellar object taken by Tianwen-1 orbiter's high-resolution camera from a distance of about 28.96 million kilometers...
Why the universe might be fluffier than we thought
Scanning electron microscope image of a interplanetary dust particle. Credit: NASA Space dust provides more than just awe-inspiring pictures like...
Within a second after the Big Bang, particle interactions may have created black holes, boson stars and cannibal stars
Fraction of dark matter density in PBHs fBH, as a function of PBH mass MBH, for a fixed parameter set...
An eye on the sky and on the community
Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) celebrates 20 years of observing the sky. Credit: https://www.salt.ac.za/ The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT)...