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NASA workers plan 3rd protest at D.C. headquarters on Sept. 15 to decry Trump's science funding cuts

Workers at NASA are planning a third "Save NASA" protest at agency headquarters in D.C. on Sept. 15, as job cuts, Trump's union-busting order and FY26 budget proposals fuel fears of lasting damage.

Is there life on Saturn's moon Enceladus? New study complicates the search

"Although this doesn't rule out the possibility that Enceladus' ocean may be habitable, it does mean we need to be cautious in making that assumption just because of the composition of the plumes."

Celebrating 10 Years of Gravitational-Wave Discoveries

The LIGO gravitational-wave detector celebrates its 10th birthday with the clearest signal yet from a pair of merging black holes.

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Star Trek: Bridge Crew was the ultimate 'Trek' game, and it needs a sequel. Make it so!

It's time to boldly go further than ever before with a Bridge Crew sequel for everyone, whether they have a holodeck strapped to their face or not.

Don't miss the moon shine close to the Pleiades star cluster on Sept. 12

The Pleiades will appear close to the moon before midnight on Sept. 12.

No redshirts allowed: A nearly impossible sci-fi trivia quiz for command-level nerds only

This quiz plunges deep into the wormhole of science fiction, testing your mastery of both cerebral literature and cult-classic cinema.

Week in images: 08-12 September 2025

Week in images: 08-12 September 2025

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Scientists say there's a 90% chance we could spot an exploding black hole in the next decade

New research suggests that if primordial black holes exist, there is a 90% chance our telescopes could detect one exploding in the next 10 years.

Lego Brick Built Star Wars Logo review — with timelapse video

We built the iconic logo for one of the biggest franchises in cinematic history, in Lego form, but is the Lego Brick Built Star Wars Logo worth your credits?

Royal Observatory Greenwich / ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year

See the images that won the 2025 Astronomy Photographer of the Year award.

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Group photo from General Assembly on Defence, Space and Cybersecurity

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Group photo taken at the General Assembly on Defence, Space and Cybersecurity, held on Friday 12 September 2025, at ESRIN, ESA’s Centre for Earth Observation Programmes in Italy. 

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Aurora alert! Butterfly-shaped 'hole' in sun's atmosphere could spark geomagnetic storm Sept. 13-14

Forecasters warn of possible G2 geomagnetic storms as a colossal coronal hole sends solar wind racing our way.

Sunrise over NASA's 'quiet' supersonic X-59 jet | Space photo of the day for Sept. 12, 2025

NASA's experimental X-59 jet is designed to fly faster than sound —but also dampen the infamous sonic "boom."

A New Neutrino Detector In China Is Coming Online

Neutrinos are one of the most enigmatic particles in the standard model. The main reason is that they’re so hard to detect. Despite the fact that 400 trillion of them created in the Sun are passing through a person’s body every second, they rarely interact with normal matter, making understanding anything about them difficult. To help solve their mysteries, a new neutrino detector in China recently started collecting data, and hopes to provide insight on between forty and sixty neutrinos a day for the next ten years.

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'I'll be damned if that's the story we write': Acting NASA Administrator Duffy vows not to lose moon race to China

NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy pushed back against recent claims that the agency is losing ground to China in the race back to the moon, promising the Artemis program will get astronauts there first, in a closed NASA town hall.

This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 12 – 21

Venus has double close conjunctions with the crescent Moon and Regulus in the dawn next Friday the 19th. Meanwhile, Saturn and Neptune are coming to opposition.

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Predicting the Green Glow of Aurora on Mars

The story begins in 2024 when NASA's Perseverance rover became the first to photograph a visible light aurora from Martian surface. Now, Dr. Elise Wright Knutsen and her team from the University of Oslo has revealed a second successful image and, more importantly, the method her team developed to forecast when these Martian northern lights will appear.

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Stellar Slingshots Launch the Galaxy's Fastest Stars

White dwarfs are the dense, hot cores left behind when Sun like stars die. Imagine squeezing the entire mass of our Sun into something the size of Earth, that’s a white dwarf and our Sun will become one in the distant future. These stellar corpses are incredibly dense, with just a teaspoon weighing as much as a large car.

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Rectangular Telescopes Could Find Earth 2.0

The search for habitable planets in other star systems has progressed considerably in the past few decades. As of the writing of this article, astronomers have confirmed the existence of 5,989 planets in over 4,500 planetary systems, with over 15,000 candidates yet to be confirmed. At the same time, next-generation observatories like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made amazing breakthroughs in exoplanet characterization. Unfortunately, scientists are still not at the point where they can characterize smaller planets located closer to their suns, where Earth-like planets are likely to reside.

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This Star Is Consuming Its Companion And Could Explode Brilliantly

Binary star systems are not rare. Neither are systems where one star is a remnant like a white dwarf or neutron star, and its companion is on the main sequence. In those systems, the dense remnant can draw material away from the main sequence star. This can create violent Type 1a supernovae in the case of a white dwarf, and the emission of extremely powerful x-rays in the case of a neutron star.

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Enceladus, The Life Signs That Weren't

In 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft made a discovery. It found towering geysers of water erupting from fractures called "tiger stripes" near Enceladus's south pole. This water comes from a vast ocean hidden beneath the moon's icy crust, kept liquid by the powerful gravitational forces from Saturn that constantly squeeze and stretch the interior of Enceladus.

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