A team of astronomers has made a groundbreaking discovery by detecting molecular activity in comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein)—the largest…


Unusual stellar nurseries near our galaxy’s center puzzle scientists
New research led by Dr. James De Buizer at the SETI Institute and Dr. Wanggi Lim at IPAC at Caltech revealed surprising results about the rate at which high-mass stars form in the galactic center of the Milky Way.

ALMA Reveals Lives of Planet-Forming Disks
An international team of astronomers has unveiled groundbreaking findings about the disks of gas and dust surrounding nearby young…

From Stardust to Stone: Windswept Grains Hold Clues to Planet’s Beginnings
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has uncovered a key piece of the puzzle in how rocky planets, such…

NASA’s Chandra and the U.S. National Science Foundation Very Large Array See Surprisingly Strong Black Hole Jet at Cosmic “Noon”
Astronomers used Chandra and the U.S. National Science Foundation Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (NSF VLA) to study this black hole and its jet at a period they call “cosmic noon,” which occurred about three billion years after the universe began.

Texas Tech University System and NSF NRAO Forge Cosmic Alliance in West Texas
The U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) and the Texas Tech University System (TTU System)…