Astronomy News
October 9, 2025
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Oct. 9, 2025 Mars may look calm, but new research reveals it’s a world of fierce winds and swirling dust devils racing at hurricane-like speeds. Using deep learning on thousands of satellite images from European orbiters, scientists have discovered that ...
Oct. 6, 2025 ESA has inaugurated a powerful new 35-meter deep space antenna at its New Norcia site in Western Australia, marking a major boost to Europe’s ability to communicate with spacecraft exploring the ...
Oct. 3, 2025 Researchers have designed a new type of gravitational wave detector that operates in the milli-Hertz range, a region untouched by current observatories. Built with optical resonators and atomic clocks, the compact detectors can fit on a lab table ...
Sep. 18, 2025 Faint hydrogen signals from the cosmic Dark Ages may soon help determine the mass of dark matter particles. Simulations suggest future Moon-based observatories could distinguish between warm and cold dark matter, providing long-sought answers about ...
Sep. 17, 2025 A new AI model from NYU Abu Dhabi predicts solar wind days in advance with far greater accuracy than existing methods. By analyzing ultraviolet solar images, it could help protect satellites, navigation systems, and power grids from disruptive space ...
Sep. 11, 2025 NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission has uncovered surprising behavior of pickup ions drifting through the solar wind near Earth. These particles, once thought to be minor players, appear capable of generating waves and influencing how the ...
Sep. 10, 2025 Physicists have unveiled a new superconducting detector sensitive enough to hunt dark matter particles smaller than electrons. By capturing faint photon signals, the device pushes the search into uncharted ...
Sep. 9, 2025 Scientists caution that asteroid deflection must be precise, as striking the wrong spot risks sending it through a gravitational keyhole that sets up a future collision with Earth. Using lessons from NASA’s DART mission, researchers are developing ...
Aug. 22, 2025 Astronomers using AI have captured a once-in-a-lifetime cosmic event: a massive star’s violent death triggered by its black hole companion. The explosion, known as SN 2023zkd, not only produced a brilliant supernova but also shocked scientists by ...
Aug. 18, 2025 NASA and ISRO s NISAR satellite has just reached a major milestone: the successful deployment of its enormous 39-foot antenna reflector in orbit. Folded up like an umbrella during launch, the reflector is now fully extended and ready to support ...
Aug. 18, 2025 With its two tiny CubeSats, NASA’s PREFIRE mission is capturing invisible heat escaping from Earth, offering clues to how ice, clouds, and storms influence the climate system. The insights could lead to better weather forecasts and a deeper ...
Aug. 14, 2025 Thirteen years after landing on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover is running smarter and more efficiently than ever. With new autonomy and multitasking capabilities, it’s maximizing the output from its long-lasting nuclear power source while ...
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Oct. 9, 2025 The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a massive red supergiant star just before it exploded, finally solving a cosmic mystery. Hidden beneath layers of dust, the doomed star revealed itself ...
Oct. 9, 2025 Asteroid 2025 TF zipped past Earth above Antarctica, coming within 428 km of the surface. Roughly the size of a small car, it was detected hours after the flyby and posed no danger. ESA astronomers ...
Oct. 8, 2025 Scientists have simulated how M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87, powers its immense particle jet. The Frankfurt team’s FPIC code shows that magnetic reconnection, ...
Oct. 7, 2025 Hubble captured a breathtaking view of NGC 6000, a spiral galaxy where blue newborn stars shine beside golden, aging ones. The image also reveals traces of ancient supernovae still glowing faintly ...
Oct. 6, 2025 Astronomers have found the most distant and energetic “odd radio circle” ever detected — a massive double-ringed radio structure nearly 10 billion years old. The discovery, made with the help ...
Oct. 6, 2025 NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled a breathtaking cosmic landscape that looks more like a scene from fantasy than reality. What appears to be a glowing mountain peak shrouded in mist is ...
Oct. 6, 2025 Scientists may have finally uncovered the mystery behind ultra-high-energy cosmic rays — the most powerful particles known in the universe. A team from NTNU suggests that colossal winds from ...
Oct. 6, 2025 October’s night sky is set to dazzle, featuring a radiant supermoon, the fiery Draconid meteor shower, and the sparkling Orionids. As the full moon reaches its largest and brightest on October 6, ...
Oct. 3, 2025 Astronomers have uncovered a runaway feeding frenzy in a rogue planet drifting freely through space, devouring six billion tonnes of gas and dust every second. Located 620 light-years away in the ...
Oct. 3, 2025 New lunar samples from the far side reveal it formed from cooler magma than the near side, confirming the Moon’s interior is not uniform. Researchers suggest fewer heat-producing elements on the ...
Earlier Headlines
Oct. 2, 2025 Fresh analysis of Cassini data has revealed new complex organic molecules inside ice grains spewing from Enceladus. These discoveries strengthen the case that the moon’s underground ocean hosts ...
Oct. 1, 2025 The LUX-ZEPLIN detector is breaking new ground in the hunt for dark matter, setting unprecedented limits on WIMP particles. Its results not only narrow the possibilities for dark matter but also open ...
Sep. 29, 2025 The James Webb Telescope has revealed fierce auroras, storms, and unchanging sand-like clouds on the rogue planet SIMP-0136. These insights are pushing the boundaries of our understanding of alien ...
Sep. 29, 2025 Hubble has captured a striking new image of NGC 2775, a galaxy that defies easy classification. Blending features of spirals, ellipticals, and lenticulars, its puzzling structure may be the result of ...
Sep. 23, 2025 NASA has chosen 10 new astronaut candidates who will train for missions to the Moon and Mars. Their selection represents a powerful blend of talent and ambition, fueling humanity’s next great leaps ...
Sep. 25, 2025 Physicists are eyeing charged gravitinos—ultra-heavy, stable particles from supergravity theory—as possible Dark Matter candidates. Unlike axions or WIMPs, these particles carry electric charge ...
Sep. 21, 2025 When two neutron stars collide, they unleash some of the most powerful forces in the universe, creating ripples in spacetime, showers of radiation, and even the building blocks of gold and platinum. ...
Sep. 21, 2025 Hubble’s latest look at Messier 96 reveals a warped spiral galaxy glowing with rings of stellar birth. The new details shed light on how stars emerge and influence their ...
Sep. 19, 2025 A new study challenges the dream of water-rich “Hycean” planets like K2-18b, suggesting that most sub-Neptunes lose their water deep into their interiors during formation. Instead of vast oceans, ...
Sep. 19, 2025 Scientists at Rutgers and collaborators have traced the invisible dark matter scaffolding of the universe using over 100,000 Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies. By studying how these galaxies clustered ...
Sep. 18, 2025 Jezero Crater’s rocks reveal three stages of water activity, shifting from hostile acidic fluids to more life-friendly alkaline ones. Perseverance’s discoveries guide future sampling and ...
Sep. 17, 2025 Astronomers have detected the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being devoured by a white dwarf star, offering the clearest evidence yet that icy, life-delivering ...
Sep. 17, 2025 A strange “Einstein Cross” with an extra, impossible fifth image has revealed the hidden presence of a massive dark matter halo. An international team of astronomers, including Rutgers ...
Sep. 14, 2025 Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered mysterious “little red dots” that may not be galaxies at all, but a whole new type of object: black hole stars. These fiery ...
Sep. 14, 2025 Billions of years ago, Mars may not have been the frozen desert we see today. New simulations suggest that volcanic eruptions pumped out reactive sulfur gases, creating greenhouse effects strong ...
Oct. 1, 2025 Perseverance rover data shows Jezero Crater once held a calm lake, leaving behind mudstones rich in organic-linked minerals. The presence of iron-phosphate and iron-sulfide nodules suggests processes ...
Sep. 29, 2025 A fresh black hole merger detection has offered the clearest evidence yet for Einstein’s relativity and Hawking’s predictions. Scientists tracked the complete cosmic collision, confirming that ...
Sep. 21, 2025 In Jezero Crater’s Bright Angel formation, Perseverance has found rocks rich in organic molecules and minerals linked to microbial metabolism. Their arrangement hints at redox reactions that ...
Sep. 16, 2025 NASA’s Perseverance rover has delivered its most compelling clue yet in the search for life on Mars. A rock sample called “Sapphire Canyon,” taken from the Bright Angel formation in Jezero ...
Sep. 12, 2025 For centuries, scientists have puzzled over globular clusters, the dense star systems that orbit galaxies without dark matter. Using ultra-detailed simulations, researchers recreated their origins ...
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- Astronomers Stunned as Fiery Auroras Blaze on a Planet Without a Star
- Hubble Finds a Hybrid Galaxy With a Mysterious and Violent Past
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
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- Neutrinos May Be the Hidden Force Behind Gold and Platinum
- Hubble Reveals Baby Stars in a Galaxy Torn by Gravity
Friday, September 19, 2025
- Alien Water Worlds Were Just a Mirage
- Scientists Just Found the Hidden Cosmic Fingerprints of Dark Matter
Thursday, September 18, 2025
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- White Dwarf Caught Devouring a Frozen Pluto-Like World
- Rare Einstein Cross With Extra Image Reveals Hidden Dark Matter
Sunday, September 14, 2025
- NASA's Webb Space Telescope Just Found Strange Red Dots That Shouldn’t Exist
- Was Mars Once Warm, Wet, and Ready for Life
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- Hidden Star Systems in the Milky Way Could Unlock the Secrets of Dark Matter
- NASA's Perseverance Rover Finds Clues to Ancient Mars Chemistry and Possible Life
- Black Holes Just Proved Stephen Hawking Right With the Clearest Signal Yet
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- The Sun’s Hidden Particle Engines Finally Exposed
- A Weirdly Shaped Telescope Could Finally Find Earth 2. 0
Sunday, August 31, 2025
- NASA’s X-Ray Telescope Finds Bizarre Features in a Cosmic Hand
- Astronomers Stunned as James Webb Finds a Planet Nursery Flooded With Carbon Dioxide
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- Distant Suns Covered in Dark Spots Could Shape the Search for Life
- NASA’s SPHEREx Captures Comet 3I/ATLAS, a Visitor From Beyond the Solar System
- NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Reveals Secrets of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
- Scientists Finally Pinpoint Jupiter’s Birth Using “molten Rock Raindrops”
- Stunning New Images: The Sun’s Smallest Loops Ever Seen
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- Closest and Brightest Fast Radio Burst Ever Detected by Astronomers
- Jupiter’s Core Isn’t What We Thought
Saturday, August 23, 2025
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- Astronomers Uncover Enormous Bubble Bigger Than Our Solar System
- Astronomers Stunned by the Strangest Supernova Ever Seen
- How Hidden Cosmic Highways Feed the Universe’s Biggest Stars
- Voyager Missed It, but James Webb Just Found Uranus’ Hidden Moon
- Ancient Solar System Crash May Explain Bennu and Ryugu’s Origin
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- Hubble Captures a Wild Star-Birthing Storm 160,000 Light-Years Away
- How NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Was Lost Before Reaching the Moon
Sunday, August 10, 2025
- This Tiny Spacecraft Could Race to a Black Hole and Rewrite Physics
- Giant Einstein Ring Reveals One of the Universe’s Biggest Black Holes
Sunday, August 31, 2025
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- This Star Survived Its Own Supernova and Shined Even Brighter
- NASA’s Most Advanced Radar Ever Will Track Earthquakes, Landslides, and Ice Loss from Space
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
- Voyager Missed It, but Now We Know Uranus Has a Fiery Secret
- What If Dark Matter Came from a Mirror Universe?
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- Radar That Could Find Life on Europa Just Nailed Its First Big Test
- Underground Life on Mars? Cosmic Rays Could Make It Possible