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

Webb images, paired with years of VLT tracking, confirm a massive third companion.

AI-HPC Breakthrough Delivers First Star-by-Star Milky Way Simulation

Pleiades Recast as Core of a Vast 'Greater Pleiades' Stellar Family

GRAVITY+ Laser Guide Stars Open Southern Sky for VLTI After First Tests

ESO Telescope Reveals Bat-Shaped Stellar Nursery 10,000 Light-Years Away

Astronomers Unveil Largest Low-Frequency Radio Color Map of the Milky Way

Rogue Planet Cha 1107‑7626 Caught in Record Growth Spurt at 6 Billion Tons per Second

Record-Setting Day-Long GRB 250702B Confirmed at z = 1.036 as Origin Remains Unsettled

Gaia Maps 'Great Wave' Rolling Through the Milky Way's Outer Disk

ASKAP Maps 185,000-Light-Year Hydrogen Bridge Between Two Dwarf Galaxies

New Images Show Interstellar Visitor 3I/ATLAS Growing a Tail as NASA Dismisses Alien-Craft Claims

Webb Reveals 8-Light-Year Protostellar Jet, Bolstering Massive-Star Formation Theory

Vast Simulations Sharpen Limits on Primordial Magnetism With 0.2-Nanogauss Best Fit

Webb Releases Multiwavelength View of the 'Butterfly Star,' Revealing Dust Settling in a Planet-Building Disk

New Modeling Strengthens Direct-Collapse Black Hole Explanation for JWST’s ‘Little Red Dots’

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

Astrophysicist Proposes Laser-Driven Nanocraft Mission to Nearby Black Hole

HeH+ Ion’s Reactivity Endured at Cryogenic Temperatures, Reframing Early-Star Cooling

ALMA Detects 17 Complex Organic Molecules in V883 Orionis Protoplanetary Disk

Mineral Condensation Captured in Planet-Forming Disk of Protostar HOPS-315