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There may be a habitable world at the Sun’s closest solar twin. In the complex space inhabited by the Alpha Centauri triple star system, JWST has just discerned the presence of a giant exoplanet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the most Sun-like of the three stars. Moreover, that exoplanet is in the star’s habitable zone – the perfect distance from the …

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A team of Japanese astronomers have spotted an explosion in deep space that is not only influencing the very star that triggered it, but also distorting the planet-forming disk surrounding it. The discovery suggests that if such explosive events are commonplace in young star systems, newborn stars and any planets that form around them may exist in environments far more …

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A cryogenic microscope that fits on a laboratory bench has now let scientists watch electrons shake graphene’s atoms in real time, revealing something called “phasons.” The work ties those shivers to the zero-resistance current and odd “strange metal” signals that appear when two graphene sheets are rotated by about 1.1° or what’s referred to as the “magic angle.” …

A bright galactic nucleus with a supermassive black hole that spews out cosmic radiation is pointing straight at us. Thankfully, the object, unimaginatively dubbed “PKS 1424+240,” is located roughly 7.4 billion light-years away and likely won’t pose much of a danger. But that hasn’t stopped a group of excited astronomers from renaming it: the “Eye of Sauron,” the symbol adopted …

Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all. Our Universe, as we observe it today, is vast and isolated, with enormous amounts of space between the stars, and with stars clustered into trillions of galaxies scattered across tens of billions of light-years. It’s also …

Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. Dear Care and Feeding, My daughter, “Fiona” is 12 and not a girly girl. She’s not unattractive by any means, just not interested in clothes or makeup. The problem is that my mother-in-law has been constantly harping on this disinterest since last year, and claims that …

Press enter or click to view image in full size A panoramic image of the 100 billion stars in the Milky-Way galaxy. (Image credit: ESO/S. Brunier) Let us imagine for a moment that the new interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS is a spacecraft, guided to send mini-probes that will arrive at Earth and other planets in the coming months. Given the limited …

Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. Dear Care and Feeding, My husband and I recently had our first child, a daughter, “Annabelle.” I grew up with three sisters, and my father has been eager for a grandson, as my two sisters with kids both have daughters as well. Now that …