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NASA: Blue Origin Launch Two Spacecraft to Study Mars, Solar Wind
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A pair of NASA spacecraft ultimately destined for Mars will study how its magnetic environment is impacted by the Sun. The mission also will help the agency
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Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP): Shocked Galaxy Clusters: Unravelling the Mysteries of Radio Relics
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Tsinghua University: A “Living Fossil” of the Very Early Universe? Discovery of a First-Generation Galaxy at Cosmic Noon
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Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS): Massive Star Formation Driven by Colliding Filaments in Cloud F-NE
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New York University Abu Dhabi: Evidence of Ancient Underground Water Reveals Mars May Have Stayed Habitable Longer than Believed
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Chinese Academy of Sciences: Researchers Detail Chromospheric Jets’ Characteristics in Active Region via High-Resolution Solar Data
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European Southern Observatory: Unique Shape of Star’s Explosion Revealed Just a Day After Detection
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Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star just as the blast was breaking through the star’s surface. For...
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European Space Agency: First Confirmed Sighting of Explosive Burst on Nearby Star
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Astronomers using the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton space observatory and the LOFAR telescope have definitively spotted an explosive burst of material thrown out into space by another star – a...
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Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON): Evidence of a Massive Stellar Storm on a Nearby Star
astron.nl
An international team of astronomers, led by ASTRON (Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy) and the Observatoire de Paris-PSL, have observed the first clear signal of a giant stellar eruption...
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Carnegie Science: The Pleiades Is Part of an Enormous Stellar Complex Birthed by the Same Star-Forming Event
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: The “Seven Sisters” Just Found Thousands of Long-Lost Siblings
uncnews.unc.edu
UNC astronomers discovered that the famous Pleiades star cluster, the “Seven Sisters,” is actually 20 times larger than previously thought.
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Space Telescope Science Institute: Researchers Submit Record Number of Ambitious Proposals for JWST's Fifth Year of Science
stsci.edu
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European Space Agency: What a Martian Ice Age Left Behind
esa.int
Travelling up from Mars’s equator towards its north pole, we find Coloe Fossae: a set of intriguing scratches within a region marked by deep valleys, speckled craters, and signs of an ancient ice age.
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Royal Astronomical Society: Superheated Star Factory Is Discovered in Early Universe
ras.ac.uk
The discovery of a superheated star factory that forms stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way could help solve a long-standing puzzle about how galaxies grew ...
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Cornell University: How To Spot Life in the Clouds on Other Worlds
astro.cornell.edu
Cloud cover is bad for picnics and for viewing stars through a telescope. But an exoplanet with dense or even total cloud cover could help astronomers searching for signs of life beyond our planet,...
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Universities Space Research Association (USRA): USRA's 2025 Distinguished Undergraduate Award Recipients Announced
newsroom.usra.edu
Washington, D.C. – November 11, 2025. The Universities Space Research Association (USRA) today named the 2025 Distinguished Undergraduate Award winners—exceptional students recognized for their...
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European Southern Observatory: Laser Trial Run Kickstarts New Era of Interferometry
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Last week, four lasers were projected into the skies above the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) Paranal site in Chile. The lasers are each used to create an artificial star, which astronomers...
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International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA): Within a Second After the Big Bang: The Birth of the First Black Holes, Boson Stars, and Cannibal Stars
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Before atomic elements came together, less than a second after the Big Bang, if particles condensed into halos of matter, these halos may then have collapsed, creating the first black holes, boson...
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Simons Foundation: Mysterious "Impossible" Merger of Two Massive Black Holes Explained
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Mysterious ‘Impossible’ Merger of Two Massive Black Holes Explained on Simons Foundation
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