“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…
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…
Astronomers surprised by mysterious shock wave around dead star
Press Release 12 January 2026 Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with…
New image captures spooky bat signal in the sky
Press Release 31 October 2025 A spooky bat has been spotted flying over the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s)…
AI’s Real Impact Is In Quiet Changes All Around Us
(Illustration by GraphicaArtis/Getty Images) Getty Images AI has always lived in abstractions: datasets and benchmarks, algorithms. Researchers spoke…
Six billion tonnes a second: Rogue planet found growing at record rate
Press Release 2 October 2025 Astronomers have identified an enormous ‘growth spurt’ in a so-called rogue planet. Unlike…