Betelgeuse’s Atmosphere is Back to Normal after Great Dimming Event, New Radio Observations Show
New radio observations with NSF’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array…
Dead star and planetary bodies: astronomers spot unique disc of debris that foretells Solar System’s future
Press Release 27 October 2026 Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have found…
Uranus and Neptune May Have Taken Different Paths to Becoming Ice Giants
Uranus and Neptune are often described as near-twins, but a new study suggests their chemistry, and possibly their…
Tiny Planet-Forming Disks Reveal Hidden Rings and Gaps
For years, astronomers thought they knew what planet formation looked like. Powerful images from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter…
ALMA Reveals Betelgeuse’s Fiery, Long-Lived Hot Spots
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array have captured stunning new images of the surface of Betelgeuse, the…
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…
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…
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 Finally Find Milky Way’s Missing Black Hole Wind
After a 50-year search, astronomers have uncovered evidence that Sagittarius A* — the 4.3-million-solar-mass black hole that resides…
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…