The traditional astrophysical recipe for life as we know it is quite simple: Get a rocky, gas-shrouded world in a “habitable zone” orbit around a star so that it’s not too hot or too cold. Then just ...
In late November 2025, astronomers captured an unprecedented cosmic signature: the first X-ray emissions ever detected from an interstellar comet. As Comet 3I/ATLAS hurtled through our solar system at ...
Across the observable universe, galaxies advertise themselves in radio waves for familiar reasons-magnetic fields, cosmic ...
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Cosmic rays, high‐energy particles from extraterrestrial sources, continuously bombard the Earth, providing a natural probe of astrophysical processes. When these particles interact with the ...