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Planet-forming disks lose gas faster than dust, new survey finds
An international team of astronomers including researchers at the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory has unveiled groundbreaking findings about the disks of gas and dust surrounding nearby young stars, using ...
Planetary Sciences
Jun 13, 2025
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Global resolution: Radio telescope network captures image of distant black hole jet
The sharpest images of the universe are created when radio telescopes around the world work together. For the first time, the world's largest network of radio telescopes, EVN, has observed together with South Africa's MeerKAT, ...
Astronomy
Jun 13, 2025
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1000 hours with the Square Kilometer Array may be our best hope to finally see Cosmic Dawn
Scientists have created a computer simulation that mimics what the Square Kilometer Array Low-frequency (SKA-Low) telescope will see when it searches for signals from the universe's earliest epochs. This simulation represents ...
Astronomy
Jun 13, 2025
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ULA's retired Delta IV launch tower demolished as SpaceX eyes Cape Canaveral site for Starship
With SpaceX champing at the bit to begin construction of a new Starship launch site at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, demolition began on June 12 to remove structures used by the previous tenant, United Launch Alliance.
Space Exploration
Jun 13, 2025
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How recurrent fluorescence helps organic molecules survive extreme interstellar conditions
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unlocked the depths of interstellar space with unprecedented clarity, offering humanity a high-resolution window into the cosmos. Harnessing this newfound capability, an international ...
Volcano 'hidden in plain sight' could help date Mars—and its habitability
Georgia Tech scientists have uncovered evidence that a mountain on the rim of Jezero Crater—where NASA's Perseverance Rover is currently collecting samples for possible return to Earth—is likely a volcano. Called Jezero ...
Astrobiology
Jun 12, 2025
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Three hot Jupiter exoplanets discovered with TESS
Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected three new hot Jupiter exoplanets orbiting three distant K dwarf stars. The finding was reported in a research paper ...
Astronomers map unusual inner workings of a jellyfish galaxy with 'bunny ears'
Astronomers have discovered a "jellyfish" galaxy whose unusual shape and internal mechanisms—including distinctive "bunny ears" and an inner "tail"—are giving researchers an unprecedented view of dynamics within one of ...
Astronomy
Jun 12, 2025
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Unlocking the mysteries of the universe with multi-messenger gravitational lensing
Combining the way that massive galaxies and galaxy clusters bend space and magnify our view of the distant universe with powerful new instruments sensitive to gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation will lead to ...
Astronomy
Jun 12, 2025
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NASA's Roman to peer into cosmic 'lenses' to better define dark matter
Dark matter affects how stars move within galaxies, how galaxies build up over time, and how everything in the universe is held together—but no existing tool has directly detected it. While dark matter does not reflect, ...
Astronomy
Jun 12, 2025
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From stardust to stone: Windswept grains hold clues to planet's beginnings
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has uncovered a key piece of the puzzle in how rocky planets, such as Earth, form around young stars. For decades, scientists have struggled to explain how dust grains ...
Planetary Sciences
Jun 12, 2025
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Space station leak concerns will delay visit by astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary
A chartered spaceflight for India, Poland and Hungary's first astronauts in decades has been delayed indefinitely because of leak concerns at the International Space Station.
Space Exploration
Jun 12, 2025
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NASA launching rockets into radio-disrupting clouds
NASA is launching rockets from a remote Pacific island to study mysterious, high-altitude cloud-like structures that can disrupt critical communication systems. The mission, called Sporadic-E ElectroDynamics, or SEED, opens ...
Planetary Sciences
Jun 12, 2025
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Would a planetary sunshade help cool the planet? This mission could find out
As climate change accelerates and politicians continue to argue, scientists are exploring radical new ways to protect our planet. One of the most ambitious concepts under development is a Planetary Sunshade System (PSS), ...
Planetary Sciences
Jun 12, 2025
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Why are sunsets so pretty in winter? There's a simple explanation
If you live in the southern hemisphere and have been stopped in your tracks by a recent sunset, you may have noticed they seem more vibrant lately. The colors are brighter and bolder, and they linger longer in the sky.
Planetary Sciences
Jun 12, 2025
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Tuning a NASA instrument: Calibrating MASTER
NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley houses a unique laboratory: the Airborne Sensor Facility (ASF). The engineers at the ASF are responsible for building, maintaining, and operating numerous instruments that get ...
Planetary Sciences
Jun 12, 2025
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European Space Agency looks to non-US partners
The European Space Agency (ESA) said Thursday it was looking to bolster alliances with countries other than the United States as it adapts to looming cuts at key partner NASA.
Space Exploration
Jun 12, 2025
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Supernovae may have kicked off abrupt climate shifts in the past—and they could again
When a star explodes, it sends high-energy particles out in all directions. This burst of energy can travel through space for thousands of light-years, traversing solar systems and even galaxies.
Astronomy
Jun 11, 2025
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75 years after Fermi's paradox, are we any closer to finding alien life?
It was a simple question asked over lunch in 1950. Enrico Fermi, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped usher in the atomic age, was dining with colleagues at Los Alamos, New Mexico, when the conversation turned to ...
Astronomy
Jun 11, 2025
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The proposed NASA budget cuts would decimate American science, an expert says
President Donald Trump has proposed the single largest year-over-year cut to NASA's budget in his 2026 budget proposal, essentially terminating many of the space agency's most promising missions.
Space Exploration
Jun 11, 2025
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