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Black hole is born with an infrared whimper

Illustration of a newly-formed black hole

Asteroid deflection: why we need to get it right the first time

Aerospace engineer Rahil Makadia on the danger of asteroid “keyholes”

Photo of Rahil Makadia at an alpine lake

Earthquake-sensing network detects space debris as it falls to Earth

Proof-of-principle experiment resolved the shock waves produced by the Shenzhou-15 module when it re-entered the atmosphere

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‘Relief’ as industrial megaproject in Chile that threatened world’s darkest skies is cancelled

ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert

European Space Agency unveils first images from Earth-observation ‘sounder’ satellite

Astronomer Daniel Jaffe named president of the Giant Magellan Telescope project

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Samples from the far side of the Moon shed light on lunar asymmetry

Diagram showing a meteor crashing into the Moon, triggering an upwelling of magma and leaving a huge crater

Unusual astronomical event might be a ‘superkilonova’

Three images showing in succession a massive star exploding, two neutron stars being born in the aftermath, and the neutron stars merging in a burst of red light

Interactions between dark matter and neutrinos could resolve a cosmic discrepancy

Photo of the Blanco telescope dome against a starry night sky

New cosmic map will put dark-matter theories to the test

COSMOS-Web uses JWST’s enhanced imaging capabilities

Uranus and Neptune may be more rocky than icy, say astrophysicists

Novel modelling approach suggests that the traditionally ice-rich image of these planets may be skewed

Hot ancient galaxy cluster challenges current cosmological models

Observations of the thermal energy in a baby galaxy cluster 12.4 billion light-years away suggest much more energetic early cluster growth than current theories assume

Gravitational lensing sheds new light on Hubble constant controversy

Astronomers calculate new value for the universe's expansion

Solar storms could be forecast by monitoring cosmic rays

Forbush decrease effect is tracked between the Sun and Earth

CERN team solves decades-old mystery of light nuclei formation

ALICE collaboration identifies three-phase process that allows particles to form despite energetically unfavourable conditions

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Cosmic time capsules: the search for pristine comets

Ancient icy wanderers like comet 3I/ATLAS, spotted in July 2025, can reveal secrets of our cosmic origins

Small white dot with a blue halo. Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS observed by the Hubble telescope

Mission to Mars: from biological barriers to ethical impediments

Emma Chapman reviews Becoming Martian: How Living in Space Will Change Our Bodies and Minds by Scott Solomon

Two adults and a child wearing spacesuits on a red planet with biodomes in the background

Quantum information theory sheds light on quantum gravity

Our podcast guest is Alex May of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Motion through quantum space–time is traced by ‘q-desics’

Subtle quantum effects could be observed in how particles traverse cosmological distances

Artist's impression of how quantum deviations could affect the motion of a particle through the cosmos

Components of RNA among life’s building blocks found in NASA asteroid sample

Samples from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu found to contain molecules and compounds vital to the origin of life

Bio-essential sugars found in asteroid Bennu samples

Astronomers observe a coronal mass ejection from a distant star

Burst from M-dwarf star could be powerful enough to strip the atmosphere of any planets that orbit it, with implications for the search for extraterrestrial life

An artist’s impression of a large red star releasing a bright, explosive burst of light. Swirling red and orange patterns surround the star, suggesting intense activity. In the background, a smaller blue planet appears with a faint, wispy trail extending away from it, indicating its atmosphere being blown off. The scene is set against a dark space backdrop dotted with stars.

Galactic gamma rays could point to dark matter

Spectrum from the Milky Way’s halo matches WIMP annihilation

Light pollution from satellite mega-constellations threaten space-based observations

Study finds 96% of images from planned telescopes could be compromised

Bring gravity back down to Earth: from giraffes and tree snakes to ‘squishy’ space–time

Emma Chapman reviews Crush: Close Encounters with Gravity by James Riordon

child sat cross legged on grass with a book on their lap and windfall apples by their feet

Quantum gravity: we explore spin foams and other potential solutions to this enduring challenge

Bianca Dittrich of the Perimeter Institute is our podcast guest

Photograph of Bianca Dittrich at the Perimeter Institute

Did cannibal stars and boson stars populate the early universe?

Objects formed by exotic particles could have created primordial black holes

Accelerator experiment sheds light on missing blazar radiation

Measurement discounts loss from plasma instabilities

The Fireball experiment installed in the HiRadMat irradiation area at CERN

Plasma bursts from young stars could shed light on the early life of the Sun

New multi-temperature coronal mass ejection observations might help us better understand how life emerged and evolved on Earth

Flattened halo of dark matter could explain high-energy ‘glow’ at Milky Way’s heart

Finding brings us a step closer to solving the mystery of dark matter, say astronomers

Cosmic dawn: the search for the primordial hydrogen signal

Sarah Wild talks to astronomers across the world who are on a hunt for a subtle hydrogen signal that could confirm or disprove our ideas on the universe’s evolut...

A radio antenna shaped like a table in remote tundra

Classical gravity may entangle matter, new study claims

Surprising result could guide searches for quantum gravity

China’s Shenzhou-20 crewed spacecraft return delayed by space debris impact

Fears that the craft has been struck by a small piece of debris

Rapidly spinning black holes put new limit on ultralight bosons

Gravitational waves confirm predictions of Einstein and Kerr

Artist’s impression of the merger of two black holes

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