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Meet the universe's earliest confirmed black hole: A monster at the dawn of time
An international team of astronomers, led by The University of Texas at Austin's Cosmic Frontier Center, has identified the most distant black hole ever confirmed. It and the galaxy it calls home, CAPERS-LRD-z9, are present ...
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Perseverance rover captures Mars vista as clear as day
The imaging team of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has taken advantage of clear skies on the red planet to capture one of the sharpest panoramas of its mission so far. Visible in the mosaic, which was stitched together from ...
Planetary Sciences
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Some young suns align with their planet-forming disks, others are born tilted
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara, The University of Texas at Austin, Yale University and National Taiwan Normal University have found that a fair number of sun-like stars emerge with their rotational axis tilted with respect ...
Astronomy
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Deep-sky survey detects an X-ray emitting pair of galaxies
By conducting multiwavelength observations with various telescopes and space observatories, astronomers from Tsinghua University and Steward Observatory have detected a galaxy pair exhibiting significant X-ray emission. The ...
Satellite observations overturn assumptions about charge distribution in Earth's magnetosphere
The region of space dominated by Earth's magnetic field is the magnetosphere. Observations have shown that, within this region, an electric force acts from the morning side to the evening side as seen from Earth. This large-scale ...
Planetary Sciences
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Six of Ingenuity's successors could be exploring Mars in 4 years
Ingenuity marked a number of milestones in space exploration. Arguably most importantly, it proved that powered flight was possible on another planet. However, it did have some limitations, such as being tied to the Perseverance ...
Space Exploration
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Cloud–cloud collision sparks active star formation in Milky Way
A recent study led by Dilda Berdikhan, a Ph.D. student from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has uncovered compelling evidence that a cloud–cloud collision has triggered active ...
Astronomy
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Strange dwarf pulsars proposed as source of ultra-long-period radio transients
Researchers led by Prof. Zhou Xia from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with collaborators, made significant progress in understanding ultra-long-period radio transients (ULPTs), ...
Astronomy
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Ultraviolet light uncovers evidence of rare white dwarf star merger
University of Warwick astronomers have uncovered compelling evidence that a nearby white dwarf is in fact the remnant of two stars merging—a rare stellar discovery revealed through Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet observations ...
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Iron-rich mineral on Mars offers evidence of recent volcanic and thermal changes
New research published in Nature Communications identifies an iron sulfate on Mars that may represent a brand-new mineral. The paper is titled "Characterization of ferric hydroxysulfate on Mars and implications of the geochemical ...
Planetary Sciences
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When Martian ground falls apart
In its latest postcard from Mars, the European Space Agency's Mars Express returns to Acheron Fossae: a dramatic network of chasms carved into the surface of the red planet.
Planetary Sciences
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NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 looks back at science mission
NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 mission with agency astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov is preparing to return to Earth ...
Space Exploration
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JWST observations shed more light on the nature of a distant galaxy
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has observed a distant faint galaxy designated JADES-GS-z14-1. Results of the observational campaign, published July 30 on the arXiv preprint ...
Deep view of Abell 3667 illuminates the past of a galaxy cluster and the future of astronomical imaging
Galaxy clusters are among the largest structures in our universe, consisting of hundreds or thousands of galaxies that have become gravitationally bound together over billions of years. Astrophysicists have long been eager ...
Astronomy
Aug 5, 2025
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Sweeping survey maps hundreds of satellite systems orbiting dwarf galaxies
We usually think of satellites as small objects orbiting planets or stars. But in the broader universe, galaxies themselves can have satellites—smaller galaxies bound by gravity that orbit a larger host, carrying with them ...
Astronomy
Aug 5, 2025
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Baby star sets off explosion, gets caught in blast
Astronomers have observed an explosion in space that is pushing back against and influencing the baby star which triggered the explosion in the first place. If explosions like this one are common around young stars, then ...
Astronomy
Aug 5, 2025
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Supergiant star's gigantic bubble surprises scientists
Astronomers have discovered a vast and expanding bubble of gas and dust surrounding a red supergiant star—the largest structure of its kind ever seen in the Milky Way. The bubble, which contains as much mass as the sun, ...
Astronomy
Aug 5, 2025
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NASA races to put nuclear reactors on moon and Mars
The United States is rushing to put nuclear power reactors on the moon and Mars, and hopes to launch the first system by the end of the decade.
Space Exploration
Aug 5, 2025
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Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy could enable future satellite swarms to complete science goals with little human help
Astronauts living and working on the moon and Mars will rely on satellites to provide services like navigation, weather, and communications relays. While managing complex missions, automating satellite communications will ...
Space Exploration
Aug 5, 2025
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Lunar photobioreactors could provide food and oxygen on the moon
Astronauts exploring the moon will need all the help they can get, and scientists have spent lots of time and plenty of money coming up with different systems to do so. Two of the critical needs of any long-term lunar mission ...
Astrobiology
Aug 5, 2025
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