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

New maps found carbon monoxide deep in Uranus’s atmosphere, implying an interior with large amounts of water ice and a closer kinship to Neptune.

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

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

Newly Discovered Asteroid Skims Safely Past Earth at One-Quarter of the Moon’s Distance

Webb Reveals Non-Rotating Massive Galaxy in the Early Universe

Study Reports Tenuous Atmosphere on a 500-Kilometer Kuiper Belt World

ALMA Finds Semi-Heavy Water in Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

Dark Energy Camera Reveals Vast Halo and Stellar Stream Around Sombrero Galaxy

DECam Image Reveals Sombrero Galaxy’s Giant Halo and Stellar Stream

JWST Studies Report Strongest Evidence Yet of Population III Stars Near GN‑z11

Global Collaboration Pins Local Hubble Constant at 73.50 ± 0.81 km/s/Mpc With 1% Precision

HETDEX Maps 33,000 Hydrogen Halos Around Early Galaxies

Astronomers Find Most Pristine Star Yet From the Large Magellanic Cloud

Comet MAPS Skims the Sun on Saturday With Fate Uncertain