NASA’s Perseverance Rover Watches Earth Vanish Behind Martian Moon

The first observation of its kind captures our home planet slipping behind Phobos in the Martian evening sky.

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SwRI study finds evidence of liquid recently flowing on Pluto’s surface | Southwest Research Institute

Researchers use New Horizons imagery to identify evidence for liquid nitrogen flowing from underneath Pluto’s famous heart-shaped glacier

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NASA’s PUNCH Sharpens Solar Storm Forecasting in First Test

Using continuous imagery from NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, scientists predicted the near-Earth arrival of a solar eruption to within 30 minutes in an initial...

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Astronomers Catch Massive Star’s Death From the First Explosive Moment - With an extremely faint burst of X-rays and no high-velocity jets, this supernova suggests a new way for massive stars to end t...

A rare cosmic explosion has given astronomers an unprecedented view of a massive star in its final moments, revealing a previously missing link between ordinary supernovae and the most energetic explo...

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SwRI-led study demonstrates PUNCH’s potential to improve space weather forecasts | Southwest Research Institute

NASA’s PUNCH mission tracks fast coronal mass ejections, the main source of strong space weather events at Earth

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Solving the Mystery of Gaia’s Quiet Black Holes

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First AI-driven Telescope Goes Stargazing

First AI-driven Telescope Goes Stargazing

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First AI-Driven Telescope Goes Stargazing

A new system developed by a team with Professor Aravindan Vijayaraghavan successfully schedules observations on a major national telescope.

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Scientists Use Moonquakes to Locate Lunar Ice | College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences | University of Maryland

By studying how seismic waves travel through frozen soil on Earth, a University of Maryland geophysicist helped

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Ice Ice Maybe: New Ways to Search for Frozen Water on the Moon

Scientists used a unique vacuum chamber that mimics moon conditions to design an approach for ice prospecting with seismic waves. The work could help future Artemis missions find water.

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Homing In on the X-Ray Sky

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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory Opens Deep Window on Famous Cosmic Field - A new NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory image featuring hundreds of thousands of distant galaxies in and around the COSMOS field ma...

A new image from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory offers a spectacularly deep view into a famous region of sky known as the COSMOS field. Located in the constellation Sextans, COSMOS is one of the mo...

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Ancient Stardust Were Seeds for the Earliest Solids in the Solar System

New analysis of the Allende meteorite suggests that pre-solar grains nucleated the formation of the solar system's earliest solids.

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Black hole feeding frenzy ends in cosmic indigestion

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Pluto’s Atmosphere: Hazy with signs of thinning - Planetary Science Institute

Pluto is on an icy march away from the Sun. In the year 2114, it will turn back, but until then, its elliptical orbit will carry it to colder and darker parts

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Laying odds on the potential for Martian water - Planetary Science Institute

We know Mars has water ice in its polar regions, but astronauts (and their solar powered equipment!) would much rather experience life closer to Mars’

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PRESS RELEASE: ASTEROID (44) NYSA MAY BE THE FIRST-KNOWN THREE-LOBED WORLD - Lowell Observatory

Previously unknown moon orbiting Asteroid (44) Nysa is also detected.

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Neptune's Inner Moons May Be Shattered Remains of Ancient Icy Worlds

New findings from Caltech researchers suggest Neptune's smallest satellites formed from the shattered remains of an original moon system that was destroyed when Triton was captured by Neptune's gravit...

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NASA Sets Coverage for August Northern Hemisphere Total Solar Eclipse - NASA

On Wednesday, Aug. 12, a total solar eclipse will be visible in parts of Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, the Atlantic Ocean, Spain, and a small corner of

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NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Discovers Field of Honeycomb Textures

Mission scientists have never seen so many of the many-sided geologic features in one place on the Red Planet.

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NASA's Juno takes the subsurface temperature of Jupiter's fiery moon | Southwest Research Institute

SwRI-led mission obtains the first measurements beneath the volcanic surface of Io revealing heat rising from below the surface

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NASA Webb Explores Family Tree of Newly Discovered Distant Objects - NASA Science

Since their discovery by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in 2022, little red dots (LRDs) have been the subject of great interest to astronomers.

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Black Hole "Blast" Reaches 300,000 Light Years

Astronomers previously believed that the impact of winds generated by supermassive black holes was contained to the host galaxy. But a recent study reveals that the energy produced extends to surround...

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New ECU discovery adds to evidence Mars once had water

More than two decades after NASA's Spirit Rover landed on Mars, ECU's Paulo de Souza has made a remarkable new discovery using data from the historic mission.

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Astronomers find strongest evidence yet that Betelgeuse has a companion - “The conclusion of a century-long quest”

At long last, astronomers have firm evidence that Betelgeuse, one of the most famous stars in the night sky, is not alone. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), a...

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Mercury has part-time radiation belts

Mercury was long considered the exception to the rule that magnetic planets have radiation belts similar to Earth's Van Allen belts, but a new study by University of Michigan Engineering and the Unive...

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'Dead stars' may have surprisingly healthy appetites

"Dead stars" known as white dwarfs have already shown the potential to help us better understand how planetary systems, including our own solar system, take shape and evolve.

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Astronomers discover super-bright quasar lenses

An international team of scientists has used machine learning to identify seven rare quasar candidates, according to a new study.

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NASA’s Swift Sees ‘Wandering’ Mega Black Hole Shredding Star - NASA Science

NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory captured an “orphan” black hole lighting up as it devoured a star on the outskirts of a faraway galaxy. These phenomena

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UNC-Chapel Hill astronomers identify one of the universe’s rarest black hole events - College of Arts and Sciences

A team of astronomers at UNC-Chapel Hill has observed an extremely rare “wandering” black hole located tens of thousands of light-years from the center of its galaxy. This finding could reshape scient...

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