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Cores of Planets in the Solar System

The cores of planets in our solar system exhibit a fascinating diversity, reflecting their formation, size, and composition. Understanding these internal structures provides crucial insights into planetary evolution and the forces that shape celestial bodies.

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SpaceX Falcon 9 launch paints glowing 'jellyfish' across Western US skies (photos, video)

SpaceX's Falcon 9 lit up the evening sky Sept. 28, when the expanding 'jellyfish' plume from the rocket's ascent could be seen for hundreds of miles.

Biosphere 2's latest mission: Learning how life first emerged on Earth – and how to make barren worlds habitable

Despite being just outside Tucson, Arizona, Biosphere 2 looks almost like a colony on another planet.

Secrets of ancient life on Earth may live in Japan's hot springs

Ancient iron-metabolizing microbes may have turned toxic oxygen into an energy source.

Canon EOS R50 V review

Targeted at content creators, the Canon EOS R50 V may not be the obvious choice for budding astrophotographers. But do the features and brand name make it an affordable option for capturing the night sky?

Webb studies moon-forming disc around massive planet

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical properties of a potential moon-forming disc encircling a large exoplanet. The carbon-rich disc surrounding the world called CT Cha B, which is located 625 light years away from Earth, is a possible construction yard for moons, although no moons are detected in the Webb data. The disc offers insight into how the moons of Solar System gas giants like Jupiter might have formed.

The Black Hole That Broke the Rules

Black holes are regions of space where gravity is so intense that nothing, not even light, can escape their grasp. They come in dramatically different sizes. Stellar mass black holes are the remnants of massive stars that have collapsed under their own gravity, typically weighing between three and a few dozen times the mass of our Sun and compressed into a region just kilometres across. Supermassive black holes, by contrast, are the giants lurking at the centres of galaxies, weighing millions to billions of solar masses. These beasts didn't form from a single collapsing star but grew over billions of years through gas accretion and mergers with other black holes.

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The Asteroid Belt's Slow Disappearing Act

The asteroid belt is found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter and is a vast collection of rocks that is thought to be a planet that never formed. When our Solar System formed 4.6 billion years ago, the material in this region should have coalesced into a planet, however, Jupiter's gravitational influence prevented this from happening, stirring up the region so that collisions became destructive rather than constructive. What remains today contains only about 3% of the Moon's mass scattered across millions of kilometres.

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Chinese astronauts add debris shielding to Tiangong space station during 6-hour spacewalk (video)

Two Chinese astronauts installed more debris shielding on the Tiangong space station during a six-hour spacewalk on Friday (Sept. 26). It was the fourth EVA of the Shenzhou 20 mission.

IAC 2025 - One-to-one with ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher

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Watch the one-to-one interview with Josef Aschbacher, Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA), extracted from Plenary 1 of the 76th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2025). In this session, he shares his insights into ESA's strategic vision.

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A Black Hole Merger's "Kick" Was Measured For The First Time

Black hole mergers are some of the most violent events in the universe. Just how violent is becoming more clear in part due to a new paper published in Nature Astronomy. For the first time, it tracks the “recoil” that the newly formed black hole gets from asymmetric gravitational waves that are released during the merger. Turns out they are strong enough to “kick” the new, supermassive combined black hole into motion at a speed of thousands of kilometers a second.

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Hubble Telescope finds galaxy with puzzling shape | Space photo of the day for Sept. 29, 2025

The Hubble Space Telescope saw a galaxy that has features of both elliptical and spiral galaxies, puzzling experts.

Mysterious crown-like features on Venus may finally have an explanation

Scientists have proposed a new explanation for Venus' giant, crown-shaped geological features, known as coronae.

Scientists Discover First Evidence of Lava Tubes on Venus

Venus is often called Earth's "sister planet" because of their similarities in size, mass, and composition. Both are rocky worlds that formed around the same time in the inner Solar System however, despite these similarities, Venus evolved into a world vastly different from Earth, with surface temperatures around 465°C, crushing atmospheric pressure 90 times greater than Earth’s and thick clouds containing sulphuric acid circling the planet. These dramatic differences between two such similar planets make Venus a fascinating subject for planetary scientists to study.

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SpaceX launches Starlink satellites from Vandenberg in California

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 28 Starlink satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Station in California on Sunday, Sept. 28, 2025.

Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB

File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands ready to launch the Starlink 7-14 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Image: SpaceX

Update Sept. 28, 2:42 p.m. EDT (1842 UTC): SpaceX adjusted the T-0 liftoff time.

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To the stars: a stellar trivia quiz

This quiz will take you on a journey through the life cycle of stars, their classification, and the incredible processes that power them.

How unexploded bombs cause environmental damage – and why climate change exacerbates the problem

One of the key ways war leads to environmental harm is by leaving behind unexploded weaponry.

Astronauts welcome NASA's new 'ascans' | On the International Space Station Sept. 22-26, 2025

Expedition 73 crewmembers sequenced DNA and worked with virtual reality glasses this week, while also continuing to unpack cargo vehicles and congratulating NASA's 24th group of astronaut candidates.

Lego Ideas The Evolution of STEM review

This might just be one of our favorite science-themed Lego sets ever made.


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