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The most tragic event in modern astronomy isn’t a funding cut or a launch failure. It is a “missed connection.” Right now, a neutron star collision somewhere in the distant universe is blasting out a ...

Hubble reveals the largest planet-forming disk ever seen, Dracula's Chivito, showing a chaotic and uneven environment around ...

Indian astronomers using James Webb Space Telescope data have detected complex hydrocarbon molecules in the planet-forming disk of a young star, offering insights into early planet formation ...

As 2025 draws to a close, we look back at the year and, in the world of science, at the findings that have kept the world on its toes. Space aficionados, in particular, have had a thrilling time.

Comet 3I/ATLAS will get closest to Earth on Dec. 19, and astronomers will be watching.

Right at the brink of a black hole, gravity twists space and time so violently that ordinary physics starts to fall apart.

By studying tiny distortions in the shapes of distant galaxies, scientists mapped dark matter and dark energy across one of the largest sky surveys ever assembled. Their results back the standard ...

Animation of the findings by researchers who used time-delay cosmography to independently confirm that the universe’s current ...

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has mapped the entire sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time, revealing cosmic secrets ...