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Lunar orbiter spots ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ new crater on the moon

Galaxies housing the James Webb Space Telescope's mysterious 'Little Red Dots' might've revealed their secrets

Mars settlers may live in houses made of yeast and gelatin

China uses 100,000 home-grown AI chips to build leading weather forecast system

The Sun May Have Swallowed a Planet

A new plasma thruster design breathes thin air for propellant

James Webb Space Telescope spies colossal cosmic cloud photo of the day for Sept. 16, 2026

The Roman telescope has enough gas for 22 years, double NASA’s expectations

Astrophysics study suggests Venus may have swallowed its moon

Japan's Mars moon project explained in lecture | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News

James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble discover 27 puzzling new objects orbiting the sun far beyond Neptune

Forget lunar metropolises: Water limits could cap moon's population, scientists say

Scientists study 3,000 supernovas and discover that dark energy may be evolving

Mercury may be shrinking faster than scientists expected

Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS carries clues from the frozen outskirts of another star system

Mercury’s enduring mysteries are ready for an unprecedented close-up

Earth's moon could have formed in just 5 hours after giant impact

Mercury Isn’t What Scientists Thought: New Study Reveals a Surprisingly Different Surface

Scientists detect signals of hydrogen from billions of years ago. Could this help us map out the universe?

For nearly 50 years, Venus’s clouds have been understood as droplets of concentrated sulfuric acid—but a 2025 reinterpretation of data inadvertently collected by NASA’s Pioneer Venus Large Probe in 1978 suggests their aerosols may instead be about 60 p

How did the infant sun form? Scientists get surprising new insights from 4.6-billion-year-old space dust

Quantum Physicist Takes Aim at the Universe's Mysterious Arrow of Time

NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding

Why do black hole flares die out? It may be down to how stars spin

Powerful new magnetic system could help spacecraft survive the brutal heat of reentry

August research roundup: 7 cool science stories we almost missed

NASA's doomed Swift space telescope restarts science work after rescue mission fails

Scientists discover massive 'thermal anomaly' beneath the surface of Mars

Researchers discover why constipation is so common in astronauts

Roman Space Telescope live launch updates: NASA, SpaceX begin post-launch press conference

Satellite Images Show Manhattan-Sized Ice Island Breaking Away From Greenland Glacier

Chance gaze at old Hubble Telescope image leads to discovery that could reveal dark matter's secrets

JWST reveals a race against time for forming planets

This Suitcase-Sized Spacecraft Could Detect a Signal From Before Stars Existed

Astronomers Use Rare Ultra-Magnetic Star to Crack a Quantum Mystery

A PhD student in Sydney just found a “Rosetta Stone” for years of unexplained radio bursts from the Milky Way: a dead star is stripping material from its companion in a 1.4-hour orbit, giving astronomers their clearest look yet at what produces at least s

A violent impact might have changed Mars’ potato-shaped moon

Astronomers detect fastest known star in Milky Way

New images show moon crater carved by SpaceX rocket

'Hidden stars' suggest that distant galaxies are much more massive than they appear

Mars Curiosity Rover Discovers Massive Field of Polygons

James Webb Space Telescope Discovers New Type Of Star Powered By Black Holes Instead Of Fusion

Scientists find dead star that predicts our sun's future. 'Broken apart and returned to the galaxy'

'Especially Exciting': JWST Finds Water Surviving Surprisingly Close to Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole

Scientists find 3 supermassive black holes on the verge of collision inside a distant galaxy

Einstein Probe catches rare X-ray flash from an exploding star

The Milky Way’s Giant Neighbor, Andromeda, May Be Slowly Shutting Down New Stars

Astronomers use a trail of stars beyond the Milky Way to map a distant galaxy’s dark matter

Scientists find 2 million active black holes, exploding stars and more, nearly doubling our view of the high-energy universe

Mars could have carried liquid water more recently than we thought

Look What NASA's Perseverance Rover Just Spotted Vanishing Behind the Martian Moon Phobos

Pluto's atmosphere is collapsing as it drifts away from the sun into a deep freeze

Inside the mystery of the James Webb Space Telescope's little red dots

South Korean satellite captures before and after views of SpaceX rocket’s moon crash

Venus's polygonal plains could point to a watery past

'Significant areas of Mars may have once been covered by water': Scientists find hidden clue in Spirit rover data

DESI side project reveals the spectra of disintegrated exoplanets

The James Webb Telescope Is Changing Astronomers’ Understanding of the Ancient Cosmos

It Took a Century, but Astronomers Imaged Betelgeuse's Companion

Neptune's moon system is bizarre. JWST data helps explain why

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