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A view of CHIME at night, with the Milky Way in the background.
A faint hydrogen signal from a 5-billion-year-old universe emerged after astronomers stripped away overwhelming radio foregrounds.
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Chang’e-6 samples contain the first natural lunar γ-iron, a magnetic nanoparticle phase that may preserve clues to the Moon’s ancient fields.
SpaceChang’e-6 samples reveal a form of magnetic iron never before found on the MoonJoseph Shavit
Artist's illustration of a supermassive black hole at the center of a radio galaxy launching powerful jets (shown in pink) all the way into the galaxy's CGM.
SpaceSupermassive black holes leave a glowing trail far beyond their host galaxiesJoseph Shavit
Perseverance found Jezero rocks altered by at least three water systems involving carbonates, silica and later hydrothermal fluids. This Mastcam-Z-enhanced color photo mosaic shows a butte near Jezero crater.
SpaceNASA finds a surprisingly complex history of water on ancient MarsJoseph Shavit
A gravitational tug involving Earth’s inner core may explain why the planet’s day length shifts by milliseconds over decades.
SpaceEarth’s inner core may be quietly changing the length of our daysJoshua Shavit
Enceladus may naturally concentrate biosignatures in ice grains, while experiments show microbes can tolerate its unusual ocean chemistry.
SpaceSaturn’s icy moon Enceladus may make alien life easier to find than scientists thoughtJoseph Shavit
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission found that Bennu shares a distinctive isotopic fingerprint with asteroid Ryugu and rare CI carbonaceous chondrites.
SpaceAsteroid Bennu may have formed much closer to the Sun than scientists thoughtJoseph Shavit
Artist's visualization of an early galaxy and its surrounding gaseous environment. The orange structures represent metal-enriched gas being expelled from the galaxy, illustrating how young galaxies began dispersing heavy elements into their surroundings within the universe's first 500 million years. The visualization is based on publicly available FIRE-2 cosmological simulation data and is not a direct telescope image.
SpaceJWST finds early galaxies were already spreading the ingredients for planets and lifeJoseph Shavit
The Moon is magnetically quiet today, but a buried volcanic structure on its far side may preserve evidence of a very different past.
SpaceBuried volcanic structure suggests that our Moon once had a powerful magnetic fieldJoseph Shavit
The illustration shows how Jupiter uses a series of regions called shocklets to interact with the solar wind and slow it before it reaches the planet’s main bow shock.
SpaceNASA’s Juno reveals how Jupiter’s giant magnetic shield absorbs the solar windJoseph Shavit
Astronomers found a small planet orbiting backward around a red dwarf, possibly revealing a second generation of planet-forming material.
SpaceAstronomers discover a strange planet circling its red dwarf star in the wrong directionJoseph Shavit
Astronomers traced auroral radio bursts directly to Beta Pictoris b, revealing the first direct magnetic-field measurement of an exoplanet.
DiscoveriesSouth Africa’s MeerKAT array detects the first radio signal directly from an exoplanetJoseph Shavit
A camper’s map search led scientists to a likely 25-kilometer impact crater in Quebec, with evidence pointing to a 390-million-year-old strike.
SpaceAmateur astronomer leads scientists to a massive 390-million-year-old impact crater in QuebecJoshua Shavit
An overhead, close-up view of McGetchin crater that was taken on Dec. 5, 2025, by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Narrow-Angle Camera (NAC).
SpaceNASA discovers a massive new lunar impact that blasted a 728-foot crater into the MoonJoseph Shavit
Supermassive and stellar black holes may launch compact jets at the same critical feeding rate near 2% of the Eddington limit.
SpaceStellar destruction reveals a universal rule for black hole jet formationJoseph Shavit
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently observed IC 348, a star-forming region just 1,000 light-years away from Earth. Webb's sharp vision revealed tiny brown dwarfs, some just twice Jupiter's mass, and young stars ejecting powerful jets crashing into surrounding gas and dust.
SpaceWebb finds brown dwarfs barely twice Jupiter’s mass, challenging star-formation modelsJoseph Shavit
A physicist outlines how laser-driven nanocraft could someday reach a nearby black hole and test gravity directly.
SpaceScientists outline how spacecraft could reach a nearby black hole within a centuryJoseph Shavit