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Introduction: A concerted push to find Earth-like worlds Across billions of galaxies and stars, Earth remains the only known cradle of life. Yet astronomers are…

Scientists Move Closer to Confirming Dark Matter Through Galactic Gamma Rays For decades, physicists have debated the existence of dark matter—the invisible substance that makes…

What is happening in 2025 with the Taurid meteor showers? The Taurid meteor showers, formed from debris shed by the wandering comet 2P/Encke, are returning…

The Taurid Meteor Showers Return in October 2025 Two long-running meteor streams — the Northern Taurids and the Southern Taurids — are active again in…

Groundbreaking Image Shows Dual Black Holes in a Cosmic Dance In a landmark achievement for astronomy, scientists have for the first time directly imaged the…

Stargazing in the Himalayas taps a new future for Hanle Perched at 4,500 metres, the village of Hanle in Ladakh sits under one of the…

What to expect: a celestial meeting in the early hours Stargazers across the Northern Hemisphere will be treated to a pleasing and relatively rare event…

What the spike means A recent international study has uncovered an unusual spike in beryllium-10 (Be-10) within Pacific Ocean sediments. Be-10 is a radioactive isotope…

Unseen yet influential: a newly discovered million-sun-mass object Astronomers have identified a mysterious object in deep space that weighs about one million times the mass…
