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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory Opens Deep Window on Famous Cosmic Field
A new image from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory offers a spectacularly deep view into a famous region…
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Spying on a Split Comet
A recent study investigated the possible mechanisms that caused a known Jupiter-family comet to split in two.
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Discovery of a Featureless Tidal Disruption Event at z ∼ 1 with the Wide Field Survey Telescope
Jiazheng Zhu et al 2026 ApJL 1004 L10 Discovered just 6 billion years after the Big Bang, AT2025wet…
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Little moons, megarocket, tiny CubeSat
When it comes to cool things happening in space, size doesn’t matter.
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Spain Offers €1 Billion in Bid to Host Thirty Meter Telescope
Spain has offered a package worth up to €1 billion to support the construction of the Thirty Meter…
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HydroGNSS data open for new insights into Earth’s water
The European Space Agency's two-satellite HydroGNSS Scout mission has completed commissioning and is now in full scientific operations.
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World-first photonic time crystal opens a new era of light control
Scientists have built the first all-optical photonic time crystal, allowing them to reshape the behavior of terahertz light…
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Black holes may spit out nearly as much matter as they swallow
A black hole observed during a dramatic 2023 eruption did not simply devour gas from its nearby companion…
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Earth from Space: New Orleans and the mighty Mississippi
Image: This colourful radar image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission features New Orleans and the delta of…
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Strange gamma rays could reveal how stars forge heavy elements
Scientists traced a mysterious surge of low-energy gamma rays from zinc-70 to magnetic changes occurring inside its nucleus.
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The Cost of a PROMISE
NASA may send an engineering copy of a Mars rover to the Moon, but at what price?
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Disk Lifetime Distribution as a Function of the Mass of Host Star
Susanne Pfalzner et al 2026 ApJ 1003 119 The disks around young high-mass stars survive for roughly 3.
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Phobos and Deimos, the moons of Mars
Mars has two small, rocky, irregular moons. Exploring them could solve long-standing mysteries about the Solar System's history.
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ArianeGroup Completes Themis Wet Dress Rehearsal
ArianeGroup has completed a wet dress rehearsal of the Themis reusable booster demonstrator at the Esrange Space Centre…
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SMOS salinity could offer early indicator of El Niño
As the Pacific Ocean moves into an El Niño phase, scientists are monitoring changes in sea-surface temperature, but…
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Alien signals may be hiding where we rarely listen
Astronomers may have been listening for alien civilizations in only a small slice of the radio spectrum while…
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Monthly Roundup: The Fourth Catalog of Gravitational Wave Events from LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA
A recent Focus Issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters introduces the fourth version of the gravitational wave transient…
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A Natural ≳100× Telescope: Discovery of the Strongly Lensed Type II SN 2025mkn at z = 1.37
Cameron Lemon et al 2026 ApJL 1003 L47 Researchers have discovered a supernova that occurred when the universe…
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MaiaSpace Ditches Suborbital Test Flight Plans
MaiaSpace has scrapped plans to conduct a suborbital test flight of its Maia rocket, opting instead to proceed…
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Bringing physics down to Earth through rocket science
Keith Cooper reviews It’s (Just) Rocket Science: Exploring Physics Through Spaceflight Missions by Trisha Muro
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The search for life on Jupiter's icy moon Europa just got more complicated
Europa’s hidden ocean has made the icy moon one of the solar system’s most promising places to search…
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Momentum July 2026
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Magnetic Activity in X-Ray Stars from eROSITA: Insights from the TESS and LAMOST Surveys
Lulu Xu et al 2026 ApJS 284 54 Of 7,229 flares from 1,430 stars, most came from stars…
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The “Rhythm” of the Interstellar Medium
Astrobites reports on the interplay between the interstellar medium and star formation in simulated galaxies.
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Astronomers find strongest evidence yet that Betelgeuse has a companion
At long last, astronomers have firm evidence that Betelgeuse, one of the most famous stars in the night…
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NASA’s Psyche spacecraft aces Mars flyby capturing stunning timelapse video
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft aced its Mars flyby, using the planet’s gravity to speed toward its 2029 encounter with…
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Blazing like 10 billion suns: NASA’s Swift sees a wandering black hole devouring a star
NASA’s Swift Observatory observed a supermassive black hole ripping apart a star more than 30,000 light-years from the…
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First-Generation Stars Provide Better Fit than a Black Hole for Early-Universe Gas Clump
What powers the prominent helium emission from Hebe, a gas clump seen just 450 million years after the…
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Trends in the Population of Binary Black Holes Following the Fourth Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog: A Data-Driven Analysis
Nir Guttman et al 2026 ApJ 996 144 An analysis of the fourth gravitational wave catalog supports the…
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Wildfires near Cebreros ground station, Spain
Image: This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image, captured on 26 July, shows a zoomed-in view over ESA's Cebreros ground station…
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Fires rage near Bordeaux, France
Image: These images by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, captured on 26 July, show the area to the west…
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Why Jupiter has several giant moons but Saturn has only Titan
Young Jupiter’s powerful magnetic field may have created a safe zone where several large moons could survive.
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After 241 days in orbit this NASA astronaut is finally home
NASA astronaut Chris Williams and two Roscosmos cosmonauts are back on Earth after spending 241 days aboard the…
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Meet space startups at ESA’s Industry Space Days
Startup companies which have come up with brilliant ideas for using space will join the European Space Agency’s…
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France’s postal service, La Poste, honours Ariane 6
To mark Europe’s newest generation heavy‑lift launcher, La Poste, France’s national postal service, has issued a collector set…
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Euclid opens a new window on the first billion years of cosmic history
One of the biggest mysteries in modern astronomy is how the Universe managed to grow enormous black holes…
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The Universe can outrun light without breaking Einstein’s rules
Cosmic expansion allows distant galaxies to move away faster than light, while still letting us see ancient light…
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Scientists discover the Sun contains 55% more silver than expected
A new analysis suggests the Sun holds far more silver than earlier estimates indicated.
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An Enhanced Formation Channel for Galactic Dual-Line Gravitational-Wave Sources: von Zeipel–Lidov–Kozai Effect in Triples Involving Sgr A*
Wen-Fan Feng et al 2026 ApJL 1003 L35 According to calculations, in a 4-year period researchers may detect…
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Noble Gases Along for the Ride
How did neon end up inside Earth's mantle, and what does that tell us about how our planet…
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Portraits of the red planet
See Mars from Viking 1 and Psyche, or with your own two eyes.
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GPS particle detectors track space radiation over two decades
Cross calibration combines data from 25 satellites
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Venus may be tearing itself apart from within
Scientists have uncovered new evidence that Venus may still be tearing itself apart from within.
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Earth from Space: Agricultural patchwork
Image: The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Australia’s southwestern corner in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia.
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China’s Tianwen-1 captures interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS near Mars
China’s Tianwen-1 orbiter captured a faint but remarkable view of 3I/ATLAS as the interstellar comet raced past Mars.
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Trajectory-Agnostic Asteroid Detection in TESS with Deep Learning
Brian P. Powell et al 2026 AJ 172 14 Unlike traditional “shift and stack” algorithms, a newly developed…
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Watch the total solar eclipse with ESA in León
Discover the science behind one of nature's most extraordinary phenomena and experience a total solar eclipse with the…
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NASA will test SpaceX and Blue Origin Moon landers before the next lunar landing
NASA is preparing for future astronaut landings on the Moon with an unusually ambitious orbital rehearsal.
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NASA’s Webb telescope discovers giant planet hiding in one of astronomy’s most famous systems
A giant planet had been hiding inside one of astronomy’s most closely studied planetary systems, concealed by a…
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Researchers Spot Hydrocarbons Surprisingly Close to a Quasar Pair
Hydrocarbons keep turning up in surprising places. This time, they've been found near a pair of accreting supermassive…
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Turbulence-Coupled Electrodynamics of the Martian Year 34 Global Dust Storm on Mars
Chali Idosa Uga et al 2026 Planet. Sci. J. 7 126 Researchers show that the global martian dust…
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Discovery of giant ‘exosatellite’ challenges our notion of what makes a moon
In a novel three-tiered hierarchical system, the star CD-35 2722 is orbited by a brown dwarf that, in…
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New ‘exomoon’ detection challenges cosmic labels
Observations made with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed evidence for a moon-like…
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What if Mars Were a Stranger (Thing)?
Astrobites reports on whether we'd even know what we were looking at if our familiar red neighbor were…
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Nonthermal X-Ray Emission Associated with Supra-Arcade Downflows in the Late Decay Phase of a Solar Flare
Hanya Pan et al 2026 ApJ 1001 89 Researchers show a connection between non-thermal hard X-ray emission and…
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China’s Chang’e-6 reveals why solar wind hits the Moon’s two sides differently
China’s Chang’e-6 samples have uncovered a surprising difference between the Moon’s two hemispheres.
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ExoMars ramps put up with cold, shaking and vacuum
Image: ExoMars ramps put up with cold, shaking and vacuum
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Astronomers find the first atmosphere on a rocky world in the habitable zone
Astronomers have found the first confirmed atmosphere around a rocky planet in another star’s habitable zone.
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Scientists discover sugar in interstellar space
The first detection of sugar in the interstellar medium could shed more light on how life began on…
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A hidden “switch-off” signal could predict solar storms seven years early
A newly discovered turning point in the Sun’s 11-year cycle could allow scientists to predict future solar activity…
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Dying Sun-like stars may kick themselves through space
Dying Sun-like stars may not fade away quietly. As blobs of gas erupt unevenly from their swollen surfaces…
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New quantum gravity theory links entropy, dark energy, and life
A new theoretical study offers a possible explanation for how the Universe can grow more complex without violating…
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Postperihelion Optical Low-Resolution Spectroscopy of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
Hideyo Kawakita et al 2026 ApJL 1000 L60 Spectra of 3I/ATLAS as it retreated from its encounter with…
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Featured Image: A Rare Pair of Galaxies Lacking Dark Matter
The galaxies FCC 224 and FCC 240 appear to be a rare example of a dark-matter-poor, globular-cluster-rich pair…
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Plato's electronics ready for space
Image: The European Space Agency’s terrestrial planet hunter Plato has recently completed a series of key tests inside…
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Artemis II crew at ESTEC
Video: 00:19:14 The four Artemis II astronauts visited ESTEC, ESA’s technical centre in the Netherlands, on 13 July…
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Call for interest: media programme for FLEX and Copernicus Sentinel-3C launch at Europe’s Spaceport
Press Release N° 35–2026 Media representatives are invited to express their interest in attending the media programme at…
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A tiny universe in a bottle reveals clues to the origins of life
Researchers have created cosmic dust from scratch by recreating space-like conditions inside glass tubes.
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Scientists identify the rare meteorite that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago
The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was likely an exceptionally rare CO chondrite from a distant region…
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A shattered asteroid may have bombarded Earth 800 million years ago
A catastrophic asteroid breakup may have triggered a huge wave of impacts across the inner solar system about…
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NASA’s James Webb catches a supermassive black hole feeding
JWST has captured unusually detailed images of gas feeding the supermassive black hole at the center of NGC…
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Dating the Dawn of the Milky Way Disk
A recent study used the kinematics, chemical composition, and ages of thousands of stars to determine when the…
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Quantifying the Impact of Starspot-Crossing Events on Retrieved Parameters from Transit Lightcurves
Catriona A. Murray and Zachory Berta-Thompson 2026 AJ 171 344 An analysis of synthetic starspot-crossing events suggests that…
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ESA’s Mars Express meets NASA’s Psyche
Image: Mars Express image
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NSF NRAO EPO Team Joins Global Astronomy Communicators at CAP2026
Seven members of the Education and Public Outreach (EPO) team of the U.S.
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Astronomers express outrage after regulators approve ‘space mirror’ permit
Proposal involves the launch of a private satellite to test reflecting sunlight onto the Earth’s surface
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More than one way to make an impact
Finding craters, speaking out against anti-science policies, preventing asteroid impacts, making art — these are all great ways…
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Terraforming Mars may be more realistic than scientists once thought
Scientists say new technologies have reopened the debate over whether Mars could someday be terraformed, turning a once…
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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launch: What to expect
NASA’s next flagship orbital observatory will reshape what we know about planets throughout the galaxy.
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NASA Taps SpaceX’s Starlink to Deliver Artemis III Imagery from Orion
NASA has selected SpaceX to deliver laser communications capabilities for next year’s Artemis III mission, enabling the agency…
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A Study of HH 270 with the James Webb Space Telescope
A. N. Ortiz Capeles et al 2026 ApJ 1003 65 Using data from JWST, the Subaru Telescope, and…
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The Starry Night Redux
The 570-megapixel Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera (DECam) captures a vibrant scene, filled with swirls and stars…
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Sun-like star caught after eating one of its own planets
A distant Sun-like star appears to have devoured one of its planets, leaving behind a surprising chemical fingerprint.
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Super-loud gravitational waves offer a new way to study black hole event horizons
Region near the "surface of no return" was previously only accessible with theoretical models
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FLEX and Sentinel-3C arrive at Europe’s Spaceport
With liftoff scheduled for September, excitement is building at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana as two cutting-edge Earth…
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