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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…

Overview: A Grand Cosmic Puzzle For decades, scientists have searched for concrete proof of dark matter—the invisible substance believed to constitute about a quarter of…

The Big Reveal: A Hidden Partner in Betelgeuse’s Tale The star Betelgeuse, one of the most famous and enigmatic celestial bodies in our night sky,…

Could intelligent life be more ordinary than we imagine? For centuries, scientists and philosophers have wrestled with the Fermi paradox: with hundreds of billions of…

Lonely Giant No More: Betelgeuse Has a Companionship Secret Betelgeuse, the brilliant red supergiant marking Orion’s shoulder, has long captured the imagination of skywatchers. For…

Discovery of a Rare Binary Pair In a breakthrough that enhances our understanding of how galaxies evolve, astronomers have captured compelling evidence of two supermassive…

Overview: A surprising isotopic signal in Pacific sediments Scientists have identified an unusual spike in the radioactive isotope beryllium-10 (Be-10) in ocean sediments from the…

Introduction: A New Milestone in Gravitational-Wave Astronomy International networks of gravitational-wave observatories have released version 4.0 of their catalog, listing 128 new black hole merger…

Groundbreaking View of a Cosmic Dance In a moment that reshapes our understanding of black holes, Finnish scientists have produced the first-ever direct image of…

Beyond Our Orbit: A tour of the cosmos’ most perplexing planets Planet hunting has yielded a catalog bursting with surprises. From pressure-made ice to diamond…
