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Star-Shredding Black Hole’s Radio Jet Still Surging, With Peak Predicted Around 2027

New Astrophysical Journal results tie the years-late brightening to a likely relativistic jet that challenges standard tidal-disruption models.

Giant Metal-Bearing Cloud Tied to Hidden Companion Explains Months-Long Dimming of Sun-Like Star

Nature Study Weighs Four Young V1298 Tau Planets, Revealing Ultra‑Low Densities

Webb Reveals Carbon-Heavy, Helium-Rich ‘Lemon’ World Orbiting a Pulsar

Webb Finds Carbon-Rich Atmosphere on Lemon-Shaped Planet Orbiting a Pulsar

JWST Confirms Runaway Supermassive Black Hole Traveling at About 1,000 km/s

Webb Finds Helium–Carbon Atmosphere on First Hot Jupiter Known Around a Pulsar

Astronomers Report Possible Dark Matter Signal in Fermi Gamma-Ray Data

UN and IAWN Launch Two-Month 3I/ATLAS Tracking Exercise as Agencies Reaffirm No Threat

Study Calculates How Tiny Black Holes Could Injure Humans—and Why Encounters Are Virtually Impossible

NASA Publishes Mars-Captured Views of Interstellar 3I/ATLAS as Minority Raises ‘Anomalies’

Webb Maps Four Dust Spirals and Confirms Third Star in Rare Apep Wolf-Rayet System

NASA Confirms 3I/ATLAS Is a Comet as Solar Plasma Strike Forecast for Nov. 21

Interstellar Visitor 3I/ATLAS Reaches Perihelion as Anti-Tail Claim Draws New Questions

First Radio-Bright Tidal Disruption Event Found Outside a Galaxy’s Core Shows Record-Fast Flares

Lab Radiation Tests Complicate Ocean Origin for Enceladus Organics

Moon Flybys Could Cut Fuel Needs for Planetary Orbit Insertion, Study Finds

36-Billion-Solar-Mass Black Hole Confirmed in Distant Cosmic Horseshoe Galaxy

Dual Lensing-Kinematics Study Confirms 36-Billion-Solar-Mass Black Hole in Cosmic Horseshoe

3I/ATLAS Identified as Third Interstellar Visitor With Cometary Activity