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Water forming as planets coalesce For decades, scientists have wondered where a planet’s water comes from. While comets and asteroids have long been thought to…

Overview: A Possible Milestone in Interstellar Chemistry In a development that could reshape our understanding of interstellar chemistry, MeerKAT, the 64-dish radio telescope array operated…

Unraveling the cosmos: a fresh look at expansion For decades, astronomers have relied on Type Ia supernovae as bright, dependable beacons to map the expansion…

Moon Over the Atacama: A Night Sky Moment When the gibbous moon climbs high above the rugged ridge, it casts a silver halo across the…

Introduction: A Planet That Breaks the Rules In a surprising twist to our understanding of planetary physics, astronomers have identified a rogue planet that behaves…

Introduction: A spectacular sky event over Kazakhstan On a clear evening in 2025, observers in Kazakhstan were treated to the brightest and largest full Moon…

Intro: a cold laboratory in space Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, has long fascinated scientists with a landscape that resembles a frozen hydrocarbon sea more than…

Unexpected Activity Around a Dying Star Astronomers have identified a white dwarf that appears to be actively consuming remnants of its former planetary system. This…

Introduction: Water in the Birth of Planets When we imagine how planets acquire their oceans, the scene often jumps from cometary delivery and late-stage accretion…
