Latest Space & Astronomy Breakthroughs

Electron-scattering line shapes cut estimated black-hole masses about a hundredfold.

Returned asteroid samples hold nucleobases, amino acids, and a first hint of tryptophan.

MoM-z14 at redshift 14.44 pushes the spectroscopic frontier of cosmic dawn.

Fresh Gaia and Hubble data turn our Galaxy's long-assumed merger into a coin toss.

The lightest planet ever seen in direct imaging, caught sculpting a gap in a young star's debris disc.

A mid-infrared spectrum points again at dimethyl sulfide, but still short of proof.

A single carbon carrying four hydroxyl groups is synthesized in space-simulating ice for the first time.

Pristine asteroid material yields the most complete inventory of prebiotic molecules ever measured off Earth.

Two black holes inside the forbidden mass gap collide to make a 225-solar-mass remnant.

A comet on a wildly hyperbolic orbit passes through the inner solar system.

The most distant galaxy yet confirmed deepens the puzzle of early bright galaxies.

The mission's debut data release maps 30 million objects across 63 square degrees of sky.