Stellar-mass and supermassive black holes abound in the Universe, whereas intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) of ~10^2-10^5 solar masses in between are largely missing observationally, with few case...

Tidal disruption events can happen when stars are torn apart by a supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy. Guest author, Mary Ogborn, explains how tidal disruption events can help us see whe...

An HST Wide-field Survey of the Galactic Bulge: Overview, Strategy, and First Results, Terry, Sean K., Anderson, Jay, Beichman, Charles A., Bennett, David P., Bhattacharya, Aparna, Beaulieu, Jean-Philippe, Gaudi, B. Scott, Green, Joel, Huston, Macy J., Lu, Jessica R., Lucas, Ray A., Nataf, David M., Penny, Matthew T., Rektsini, Natalia E., Rodriguez Sanchez-Vahamonde, Carolina, Vandorou, Aikaterini

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Researchers explored the reaches of humanity's technological signatures to determine if intelligent life like that on Earth could detect Earth.

How media hype and misunderstanding fuel pseudoscientific fascination  Introduction The word “cult” is used here in the sense given by...

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The third SETI Symposium, presented by the Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center, will be hosted at the Penn Stater Hotel and Convention Center on August 18–21, 2025.

Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, the pair sets a new record for the

Earth Detecting Earth: At What Distance Could Earth’s Constellation of Technosignatures Be Detected with Present-day Technology?, Sheikh, Sofia Z., Huston, Macy J., Fan, Pinchen, Wright, Jason T., Beatty, Thomas, Martini, Connor, Kopparapu, Ravi, Frank, Adam

The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

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GRB 221009A is one of the brightest transients ever observed with the highest peak gamma-ray flux for a gamma-ray burst (GRB). A type Ic-BL supernova (SN), SN 2022xiw, was definitively detected in lat...

We present SynthPop, a new open source, modular population synthesis Galactic modeling software to simulate catalogs of Milky Way stars along any sightline outward from the Sun. Motivated by a lack fl...