The bubble of gas around the red supergiant DFK 52 ALMA/Mark Siebert et al. 2025 A dying star is expelling…
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Cameras that work like our eyes could give boost to astronomers
The Sirius binary star system photographed with a neuromorphic camera Satyapreet Singh, Chetan Singh Thakur, Nirupam Roy, Indian Institute of…
Can we send a spacecraft to intercept interstellar object 3I/ATLAS?
NASA’s Juno spacecraft could be sent to intercept the interstellar object NASA/JPL-Caltech An interstellar object currently hurtling through our solar…
New NASA head wants to build a nuclear reactor on the moon – but why?
A concept image of NASA’s Fission Surface Power Project NASA NASA is going to build a nuclear reactor on the…
How we could explore a black hole with an interstellar nanocraft
An illustration of a spaceship sailing close to a black hole liuzishan/Getty Images An interstellar probe sent to a black…
We’ve discovered the most massive black hole yet
Scientists have identified an ultramassive black hole billions of light years away IgorZh/Shutterstock A gargantuan black hole hiding in a…
Astronomers gather more clues about interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
A Hubble Space Telescope image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Background stars appear as streaks because the telescope was tracking…
A planet the size of Saturn could orbit the nearest Sun-like star
Artistic concept of what the gas giant orbiting Alpha Centauri A could look like ESA/Webb Copyright: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI,…
6 of the most fascinating moments in the life of our solar system
The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons…