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Asteroid 44 Nysa Is Likely a Three‑Lobed Body and Has a Small Moon

Tracking the newly detected satellite can reveal Nysa's mass to distinguish competing formation models.

Astronomers Capture Clearest Image Yet of Betelgeuse’s Likely Companion

AI Flagged a Wandering Supermassive Black Hole Tearing Apart a Star

ALMA Archival Search Recasts How Many Stars We've Searched for Alien Signals

Astronomers Report Jupiter‑Mass Companion Orbiting Brown Dwarf in CD‑35 2722 System

Massive Gaseous Companion Detected Orbiting Brown Dwarf in CD-35 2722

Long-Tracked Near‑Earth Object 1998 SH2 Reclassified as Comet

Nearby Super‑Earth GJ 3378b Confirmed in Red Dwarf Habitable Zone

VLT Confirms Ancient, Non‑Solar Chemistry in Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

New JWST Findings Complicate Origins of Little Red Dots

ALMA Finds Deep Carbon Monoxide That Points to an Ice-Rich Uranus

Distant Lensed Starburst Identified as Leading Candidate for 2021 IceCube Neutrino

Third Galaxy in NGC 1052 Trail Found to Lack Dark Matter

Webb Spectrum Reveals Dense Gas Cocoon Around an Early ‘Little Red Dot’

JWST Spectrum Shows Some ‘Little Red Dots’ Are Accreting Black Holes

JWST and ALMA Image Supernova-Driven Wind Stripping Gas From a z≈5.3 Galaxy

Quiet Supermassive Black Holes Measured and Seen Driving Galactic Winds

Astronomers Find Hot Wind Carving Cone from Milky Way’s Central Black Hole

JWST Measures 50‑Million‑Solar‑Mass Black Hole That Outweighs Its Host

Gemini North Reveals Crystal Ball Nebula Shaped by a Nine‑Year Binary