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Radio Survey Finds 185,000-Light-Year Gas Bridge and Record Tail Linking Two Dwarf Galaxies

Modeling points to tidal interaction combined with ram-pressure stripping during the pair’s approach to the Virgo cluster.

Webb Unveils Most Detailed Infrared Images of Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way’s Largest Star-Forming Cloud

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

Roman Telescope Details Plan to Map 20 Billion Milky Way Stars

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

JWST Finds CO2-Dominated Planet-Forming Disk in NGC 6357 With Little Water

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

Astronomers Capture Infant Planet Sculpting Spiral in HD 135344B’s Disk

First Direct Images Reveal Betelgeuse’s Close-Orbiting Companion

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

Webb Reveals Young Stars Sculpting Cat’s Paw Nebula on Third Anniversary

UK Radio Array Captures Missing Pebble Stage of Planet Formation

Astronomers Model 21-Centimeter Signal to Reveal Masses of Universe’s First Stars

Saturn-Sized Exoplanet Orbits Record-Low Mass Star, Challenging Formation Theories