ALMA Telescope Finds SETI Has Searched 21 Times More Stars Than Anyone Knew
For six decades, SETI researchers have been pointing their radio telescopes at a narrow slice of the electromagnetic…
Organic molecules can survive violent supernova explosions – fueling star and planet formation
A supernova remnant is supposed to be a rough neighborhood for a newborn star. Shock waves rip through…
“Beyond the limit”: one million satellites and mirrors in space pose grave threat to the night sky
Press Release 1 July 2026 A new European Southern Observatory (ESO) study has found that current proposals to…
AI’s Threat to Mental Health Care
The U.S. is in the midst of an acute mental health crisis. In late May, the Centers for…
A Hidden Galaxy Called Shadow Blaster May Explain One of Astronomy’s Biggest Mysteries
A conceptual figure of this study. The background diagram represents the history of the Universe stretching from the…
After 50 Years, Astronomers Finally Found What the Milky Way’s Black Hole Was Hiding
Astronomers have uncovered long-sought evidence that the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole is producing a wind, revealing…
Shadow Blaster points to starburst galaxies as hidden sources of cosmic neutrinos
A ghostlike particle from deep space sent astronomers chasing one of the Universe’s hardest mysteries. The trail led…
Astronomers Trace Elusive High-Energy Neutrino to Star-Forming Galaxy in Early Universe
JCMT0402-0424, a dusty starburst galaxy around 11 billion light-years away, is the strongest candidate yet for the source…
Astronomers detect first direct evidence of star-forming gas in early galaxies
The first galaxies were already busy by the time the universe was 700 to 800 million years old.…
Galaxy-killing wind may explain why giant galaxies died so early
A massive galaxy in the early universe seems to be growing itself toward ruin. While it churns out…
Strange winds reveal strongest hints yet of magnetic activity in exoplanets
Press Release 2 June 2026 A team of astronomers has found the strongest evidence yet that some planets…
Weighing Newborn Planets Using Their Dusty Fingerprints
Simulation of a planet embedded in a protoplanetary disc, causing disc material to pile up in a ring…