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NASA: Blue Origin Launch Two Spacecraft to Study Mars, Solar Wind www.nasa.gov/news-release...
NASA, Blue Origin Launch Two Spacecraft to Study Mars, Solar Wind - NASA
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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November 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP): Shocked Galaxy Clusters: Unravelling the Mysteries of Radio Relics www.aip.de/en/news/shoc...
Shocked galaxy clusters: Unravelling the mysteries of radio relics
When galaxy clusters collide, huge shock waves are sent out. These energise electrons, giving rise to so-called ‘radio relics’ – vast structures that emit radio waves. Using computer simulations, a re
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November 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Tsinghua University: A “Living Fossil” of the Very Early Universe? Discovery of a First-Generation Galaxy at Cosmic Noon astro.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/info/1026...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS): Massive Star Formation Driven by Colliding Filaments in Cloud F-NE english.xao.cas.cn/news/202511/...
Massive star formation driven by Colliding Filaments in Cloud F-NE--Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory
Xinjiang Astronomy Observatory、Chinese Academy of Sciences Research at XAO is comprised of three divisions: Radio Astronomy Research Division, Optical Astronomy Research Division and Computer Applicat...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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New York University Abu Dhabi: Evidence of Ancient Underground Water Reveals Mars May Have Stayed Habitable Longer than Believed nyuad.nyu.edu/en/news/late...
Evidence of Ancient Underground Water Reveals Mars May Have Stayed Habitable Longer Than Believed
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November 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Chinese Academy of Sciences: Researchers Detail Chromospheric Jets’ Characteristics in Active Region via High-Resolution Solar Data english.cas.cn/newsroom/res...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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European Southern Observatory: Unique Shape of Star’s Explosion Revealed Just a Day After Detection www.eso.org/public/news/...
Unique shape of star’s explosion revealed just a day after detection
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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November 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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European Space Agency: First Confirmed Sighting of Explosive Burst on Nearby Star www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
First confirmed sighting of explosive burst on nearby star
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 –...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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European Space Agency (ESA): ESA Actively Monitoring Severe Space Weather Event www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
ESA actively monitoring severe space weather event
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November 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON): Evidence of a Massive Stellar Storm on a Nearby Star www.astron.nl/stellar-stor...
Evidence of a massive stellar storm on a nearby star | ASTRON
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 from...
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November 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Carnegie Science: The Pleiades Is Part of an Enormous Stellar Complex Birthed by the Same Star-Forming Event carnegiescience.edu/pleiades-par...
The Pleiades is part of an enormous stellar complex birthed by the same star-forming event
The Pleiades, or Seven Sisters, is an often-observed star cluster named after an ancient Greek legend. New work indicates it is the core of a massive stellar complex that spreads over nearly 2,000 lig...
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November 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: The “Seven Sisters” Just Found Thousands of Long-Lost Siblings uncnews.unc.edu/2025/11/12/t...
The “Seven Sisters” Just Found Thousands of Long-Lost Siblings - UNC News
UNC astronomers discovered that the famous Pleiades star cluster, the “Seven Sisters,” is actually 20 times larger than previously thought.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Space Telescope Science Institute: Researchers Submit Record Number of Ambitious Proposals for JWST's Fifth Year of Science www.stsci.edu/contents/new...
Researchers Submit Record Number of Ambitious Proposals for Webb's Fifth Year of Science
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November 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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European Space Agency: What a Martian Ice Age Left Behind www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
What a martian ice age left behind
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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November 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Royal Astronomical Society: Superheated Star Factory Is Discovered in Early Universe ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
Superheated star factory is discovered in early universe
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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November 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Cornell University: How To Spot Life in the Clouds on Other Worlds astro.cornell.edu/news/how-spo...
How to spot life in the clouds on other worlds
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, Co...
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November 12, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Universities Space Research Association (USRA): USRA's 2025 Distinguished Undergraduate Award Recipients Announced newsroom.usra.edu/universities...
Universities Space Research Association Proudly Announces the 2025 Distinguished Undergraduate Award Recipients
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 talen...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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European Southern Observatory: Laser Trial Run Kickstarts New Era of Interferometry www.eso.org/public/news/...
Laser trial run kickstarts new era of interferometry
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 u...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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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 www.sissa.it/news/within-...
Within a Second After the Big Bang: The Birth of the First Black Holes, Boson Stars, and Cannibal Stars
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 sta...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Simons Foundation: Mysterious "Impossible" Merger of Two Massive Black Holes Explained www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/11/10/m...
Mysterious ‘Impossible’ Merger of Two Massive Black Holes Explained
Mysterious ‘Impossible’ Merger of Two Massive Black Holes Explained on Simons Foundation
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November 11, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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University of New Hampshire: Student-Built Satellite Will Collect Data for NASA’s IMAP Mission: www.unh.edu/unhtoday/new...
UNH Student-Built Satellite will Blast into Space, Collects Data for NASA’s IMAP Mission
DURHAM, N.H.—A multidisciplinary team of undergraduate students led by the University of New Hampshire designed and built a mini satellite, known as a CubeSat, that will launch into space to gather da...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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McGill University: “Weather” Mapped on a Nearby Brown Dwarf in Unprecedented Detail www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha...
McGill-led team maps ‘weather’ on a nearby brown dwarf in unprecedented detail
Researchers at McGill University and collaborating institutions have mapped the atmospheric features of a planetary-mass brown dwarf, a type of space object that is neither a star nor a planet, existi...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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European Space Agency: Dust, Sand and Wind Drive Slope Streaks on Mars www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Oxford University: Saturn’s Icy Moon May Host a Stable Ocean Fit for Life www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11...
Saturn’s icy moon may host a stable ocean fit for life, new study
New findings from NASA’s Cassini mission show that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons and a top contender for extra-terrestrial life, is losing heat from both poles – indicating that it has the
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November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics: Dawn of a New Era of Interferometry with GRAVITY+ www.mpe.mpg.de/8106898/news...
Dawn of a New Era of Interferometry with GRAVITY+
Over the weekend, four lasers were set off into the skies above the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) Paranal site in Chile. The lasers are each used to create a fake star, which astronomers use...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM