I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...
Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...
Planet formation used to sound straightforward: dust clumps into rocks, rocks grow into worlds, and the rest is detail. A ...
NASA's Pandora satellite lifted off on January 11, 2026, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, marking ...
"One thing popped out as clear as anything, this previously unknown 'bar' of ionized iron atoms, in the middle of the ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered its clearest view yet of a supermassive black hole's immediate surroundings, ...
One of the most stubborn issues in cosmology today concerns the universe's rate of expansion. Scientists know it's expanding, ...
Using the Einstein Probe (EP), astronomers from China and Germany have observed a nearby galaxy cluster known as Abell 3571.