3I/ATLAS Chemistry: Reading the Nature Astronomy Deuterium Paper
By Dr. Felix Chen · Published May 13, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 Last reviewed: May 13, 2026. On 24 April 2026, Nature Astronomy published the first direct chemical measurement of water from another planetary system. The paper, led by graduate student Luis E. Salazar Manzano and principal investigator Teresa Paneque-Carreño at the University […]
The Wow! Signal: A Space Mystery
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 8, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 On the night of August 15, 1977, a radio telescope in rural Ohio recorded 72 seconds of narrowband signal at 1420.4056 MHz, the resonant frequency of neutral hydrogen. Days later, astronomer Jerry R. Ehman circled the printout’s intensity sequence “6EQUJ5” in red […]