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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…

Overview: A Nebula Portrait of a Rampaging Cosmic Baboon In a remarkable achievement for space photography, astrophotographer Greg Meyer reveals a nebula image that resembles…

Rethinking a Long-Standing Label: Ice Giants or Rock Giants? For decades, Uranus and Neptune have been classified in astronomy as “ice giants,” a category that…

From a Portlaoise back garden to the Messier catalogue In a quiet suburb of Portlaoise, a science-minded photographer is turning a routine night into a…
