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Grassland with forest on the horizon

October 24, 2025

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Prolonged, extreme drought in grassland and shrubland risks Dust Bowl conditions

"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

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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

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