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"Macromolecular Metabiology," used for frontispiece of CIW publication 624, "Studies of Macromolecular Biosynthesis"

October 17, 2025

Feature Story

From Atoms to Cells: A History of the Biophysics Section

Images from the night of 2025 SC79’s discovery showing its motion relative to background stars. Photographs courtesy of Scott S. Sheppard.

October 16, 2025

Fast-moving asteroid found in Sun’s glare

Stars in space

September 30, 2025

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Artist's conception of moon-forming environment. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Gabriele Cugno (University of Zürich, NCCR PlanetS), Sierra Grant (Carnegie Institution for Science), Joseph Olmsted (STScI), Leah Hustak (STScI)

September 29, 2025

Press Release

Astronomers get first-ever peek into a gas giant’s moon-forming environment

Steven Shirey

September 24, 2025

Awards

Steven B. Shirey awarded AGU’s Hess Medal

A globular cluster (white concentration of stars) naturally emerges in the high resolution EDGE simulations. These simulations also predict the existence of a new class of object: globular cluster-like dwarfs. Credit University of Surrey, Matt Orkney, Andrew Pontzen & Ethan Taylor

September 18, 2025

Press Release

New class of star systems predicted

Allison Matthews with the image from the MeerKAT radio telescope.

September 18, 2025

Spotlight

Postdoc Spotlight: Allison Matthews

Casey Lam at the Magellan telescopes at Carnegie Science's Las Campanas Observatory in Chile

September 18, 2025

Spotlight

Postdoc Spotlight: Casey Lam

Mars

September 18, 2025

Q&A

Q&A: Perseverance Rover finds a rock with "leopard spots"

Dwarf galaxy simulation dark matter courtesy of Andrew Wetzel.

September 17, 2025

Awards

$4M John Templeton Foundation grant funds interdisciplinary approach to unraveling cosmic mysteries