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Artist's conception of the view from the surface of super-Earth exoplanet GJ 3378b or Gliese 3378b

A Potentially Habitable World 25 Light-Years Away Is Now Half as Massive as Scientists Thought

New measurements from McDonald Observatory halve the mass of GJ 3378b a habitable-zone super-Earth 25 light-years away making it more likely rocky than gas-wrapped. The planet sits at the cosmic shoreline where

July 3, 2026

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Artist illustration of WD 1856 b a giant planet orbiting a white dwarf star detected by the James Webb Space Telescope

Webb Detects the First Atmosphere on a Planet That Survived Its Star’s Death

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected methane and cloud particles in the atmosphere of WD 1856 b, a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a dead star 80 light-years away, the first atmospheric measurement of a planet transiting a white dwarf and

July 3, 2026

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Artist illustration of exoplanet Kepler-1649c orbiting in the habitable zone of its red dwarf host star similar to the configuration of GJ 3378b

Astronomers Find That a Nearby Habitable-Zone Planet Is Half the World They Thought

A revised analysis using four precision spectrographs has cut the mass of a nearby habitable-zone planet

The Milky Way arch with southern constellations Crux and Carina visible from ESO observatory site in Chile, the sky Rubin Observatory surveys

The Rubin Observatory Has Begun Filming the Greatest Cosmic Movie Ever Made

The Rubin Observatory began its 10-year sky survey on July 1, photographing the entire southern sky

NASA Mars helicopter rotor blade undergoing Mach 1 supersonic testing inside a simulated Martian atmosphere chamber

NASA Pushes Mars Helicopter Rotor Blades Beyond Mach 1 in a Breakthrough That Rewrites Aerial Flight on Mars

NASA has entered a rare engineering frontier where theoretical aerodynamics collides with planetary survival constraints: rotor blades spinning faster than the speed of sound inside a simulated Martian atmosphere, and still holding

May 8, 2026

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Thousands of newly discovered exoplanets orbiting distant stars detected by NASA TESS

Scientists Uncover 10,000 “Impossible” Exoplanets That Could Rewrite the Map of the Universe

The cosmos, it turns out, may be far more crowded than astronomers ever dared to imagine. In a sweeping breakthrough that leans heavily on artificial intelligence, scientists have identified more than 10,000

May 3, 2026

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Flower Moon rising on May 1, 2026 over spring landscape with Scorpio constellation in night sky

Flower Moon May 1, 2026, Rare Scorpio Micromoon Signals Unusual Double Full Moon Month

The night sky on May 1, 2026, delivers an astronomical configuration that is at once ordinary in appearance and unusual in structure. The full Moon, traditionally known as the Flower Moon, rises

May 1, 2026

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NASA Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope fully assembled before launch

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Completed: A Ruthless New Eye Set to Rewrite the Universe

The machinery is finished. The ambition is staggering. And the implications could be existential for modern cosmology. NASA has confirmed that the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, its next flagship observatory, is

April 22, 2026

Astronomy·Science

NASA Artemis III SLS core stage being transported on Pegasus barge toward Kennedy Space Center

NASA Rolls Out Artemis III Mega Rocket Core Stage in Major Leap Toward 2027 Moon Mission

NASA has moved the most structurally critical component of its next lunar rocket into active flight preparation, transferring the Artemis III Space Launch System (SLS) core stage from the Michoud Assembly Facility

April 21, 2026

Astronomy·Science

NASA Curiosity rover studying ancient rock in Gale Crater on Mars

Curiosity Rover Detects Complex Organic Molecules on Mars in Breakthrough Experiment That Reignites the Search for Ancient Life

Gale Crater, Mars — A routine drilling operation by NASA’s Curiosity rover has escalated into one of the most consequential scientific developments in recent planetary exploration, revealing an unexpectedly diverse suite of

April 21, 2026

Astronomy·Science

Blue Origin New Glenn rocket lifting off from Cape Canaveral during mission that later faced FAA grounding after satellite orbit failure

Blue Origin’s New Glenn Disaster Triggers FAA Grounding, Jeopardizing NASA Moon Ambitions

The spectacle was flawless. The outcome was not. Blue Origin’s towering New Glenn rocket roared into the Florida sky with the theatrical precision of a company determined to rival the dominance of

April 21, 2026

Astronomy·Science

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching GPS III SV10 satellite for US Space Force

SpaceX Launches Final GPS III Satellite in High-Stakes US Space Force Mission

In the pre-dawn darkness over Florida’s Atlantic coast, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket thundered into the sky, carrying what may be one of the most consequential payloads in modern navigation history: the

April 21, 2026

Astronomy·Science

Voyager 1 spacecraft drifting in interstellar space as NASA shuts down instruments in 2026

Voyager 1 Goes Dark on Key Instrument as NASA Fights to Keep Humanity’s Farthest Spacecraft Alive

The silence creeping across deep space is not poetic. It is engineered. Nearly half a century after launch, NASA has begun shutting down yet another instrument aboard Voyager 1 , a calculated

April 21, 2026

Astronomy·Science

Earth setting behind the Moon captured by Artemis II astronauts on iPhone

Artemis II Stuns the World as Viral ‘Earthset’ Video Captured on iPhone Redefines Space Photography

In a moment that feels almost engineered for the age of virality, NASA’s Artemis II mission has delivered a piece of footage so surreal it borders on fiction: Earth, luminous and fragile,

April 20, 2026

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A Potentially Habitable World 25 Light-Years Away Is Now Half as Massive as Scientists Thought

Webb Detects the First Atmosphere on a Planet That Survived Its Star’s Death

Astronomers Find That a Nearby Habitable-Zone Planet Is Half the World They Thought

The Rubin Observatory Has Begun Filming the Greatest Cosmic Movie Ever Made

NASA Pushes Mars Helicopter Rotor Blades Beyond Mach 1 in a Breakthrough That Rewrites Aerial Flight on Mars

Scientists Uncover 10,000 “Impossible” Exoplanets That Could Rewrite the Map of the Universe

Flower Moon May 1, 2026, Rare Scorpio Micromoon Signals Unusual Double Full Moon Month

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Completed: A Ruthless New Eye Set to Rewrite the Universe

NASA Rolls Out Artemis III Mega Rocket Core Stage in Major Leap Toward 2027 Moon Mission

Curiosity Rover Detects Complex Organic Molecules on Mars in Breakthrough Experiment That Reignites the Search for Ancient Life

Blue Origin’s New Glenn Disaster Triggers FAA Grounding, Jeopardizing NASA Moon Ambitions

SpaceX Launches Final GPS III Satellite in High-Stakes US Space Force Mission

Voyager 1 Goes Dark on Key Instrument as NASA Fights to Keep Humanity’s Farthest Spacecraft Alive

Artemis II Stuns the World as Viral ‘Earthset’ Video Captured on iPhone Redefines Space Photography

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Ahmadis in Bangladesh face fresh threat of persecution

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