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Astronomers say new interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is 'very likely to be the oldest comet we have ever seen'

3I/ATLAS isn't just fascinating because it is the third interstellar visitor found in the solar system; new research suggests it's also the oldest comet ever seen, at over 7 billion years old.

Earth from Space: Lake District, UK

Image: The varied landscape of England’s Lake District is featured in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

ESA Council receives Anniversary Statement

The Council of the European Space Agency has received the Anniversary Statement as signed by Member States marking 50 years of the agency.

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Grab the Canon 10x42L IS WP Binoculars for just $1210 at Newegg and gaze at the lunar surface during the Buck moon!

A Small Satellite Could See a Perfect Solar Eclipse Every Month

There was a total solar eclipse in the UK back in 1999. I travelled down to Cornwall, a loooooong 8 hour car drive and quite typically for UK, it was cloud. For me, I either need to wait until 2090 when I will be the ripe old age of 117 or travel abroad. Even if I had seen it, I would have been able to enjoy the spectacle for just over 2 minutes! Imagine though, experiencing a total solar eclipse that lasts 48 minutes instead of the usual four minutes or so that we see on Earth. A UK led space mission plans to make this possible by creating artificial solar eclipses in space, revolutionising how we study our nearest star and potentially saving decades of waiting for natural eclipses.

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Binary Stars Out of Sync: One Hosts a Giant Planet, While its Companion is Still Forming Planet

Protoplanetary disks made of gas and dust form around young stars, and this is where planets from. These disks don't last forever. Eventually, the star's energetic output dissipates the disk through photoevaporation, the material gets taken up in planets, and the planet-forming process ceases.

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Observing the Dark Ages of the Universe from the Far Side of the Moon

For decades, astronomers have yearned for the day when they could observe the period known as "Cosmic Dawn." This period, which took place roughly 50 million to 1 billion years after the Big Bang, is when the first galaxies in the Universe formed. Observing these galaxies is crucial to understanding cosmic evolution and the forces that govern the Universe (e.g., Dark Matter, Dark Energy, etc.) Thanks to next-generation observatories like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers are starting to get their first look behind the veil.

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Celebrate the JWST's Third Anniversary With This Stunning Image

On July 11, 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope finished its commissioning and commenced science operations. In the three years since, the powerful infrared space telescope has delivered on its promise. It's looked back in time and surprised us with the galaxies it found. It's directly-imaged exoplanets and studied the atmospheres of others. Among this and all of its other science, it's delivered a stream of stunning images.

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The Roman Space Telescope is Coming Together as Engineers Install its Solar Panels

When it is deployed in 2027, NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide new insights into the cosmos. As the successor to the venerable Hubble mission, it will rely on a 2.4 m (7.9 ft) wide primary mirror and a field of view 100 times greater than its predecessor. This next-generation observatory will join the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), using its high-resolution and high-sensitivity instruments to view objects too faint, cool, or distant for other telescopes to observe. The mission is currently in the System Assembly, Integration and Test, and Launch phase of development at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

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Ancient Moon Rock Reveals Missing Chapter in Lunar History

A remarkable 2.35 billion year old meteorite found in Africa in 2023 has opened a new window into the Moon's volcanic history, filling a gap in our understanding of how Earth's closest neighbour evolved over billions of years.

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NASA, SpaceX targeting July 31 for launch of Crew-11 astronaut mission to ISS

NASA and SpaceX are targeting July 31 for the launch of the four-astronaut Crew-11 mission, which will fly a mix of rookies and spaceflight veterans to the ISS.

10 best Lego Star Wars sets of 2025 so far: Amazon Prime Day

In a galaxy not so far, far away, here are the 10 best Lego Star Wars sets released so far this year, now that Prime Day is underway.

James Webb Space Telescope celebrates 3 years of science with dazzling 'toe beans' image of Cat's Paw Nebula

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is celebrating three years of transformational science with a striking new image of the Cat's Paw Nebula.

Senators push back on Trump's proposal to cut NASA science funding by 47%

The Senate appropriations committee initially voted in favor of a bill rejecting Trump's NASA budget cuts, but discussions are still ongoing.

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Where Does Cosmic Dust Come From? The JWST Provides an Answer

In our homes, dust is a nuisance. In space, it's a basic material from which stars, planets, and living things are made. Understanding where cosmic dust comes from is a ground-level question in astronomy, and researchers working with the JWST have uncovered one source: Wolf-Rayet stars.

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Lunar Astronauts Could Eat "Moon Rice"

Astronauts on future missions won't be surviving on freeze-dried meals and protein bars. Instead, they might be harvesting fresh rice from compact plants just 10 centimetres tall, engineered specifically for life beyond Earth. The revolutionary ‘Moon Rice’ project is developing the perfect crop for sustained space habitation, combining cutting edge genetics with the practical needs of deep space exploration.

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UK is Considering a Mission to Venus to Search for Life

Venus has always seemed like the last place you'd expect to find life. With surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead and crushing atmospheric pressure, our neighboring planet appears utterly hostile. But high in its clouds, where conditions are surprisingly Earth-like, scientists have discovered something extraordinary: mysterious gases that shouldn't exist, unless something is alive up there….perhaps!

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Little Red Dots Lead To Big Discoveries

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large Telescope. Other times, they come up with unique sounding names, like quasars. And sometimes they come up with names that, while descriptive in some sense, are completely misleading in others. That is the case for Little Red Dots (LRD) - active galactic nuclei in the early universe that show up as a little red dot in the images captured by whatever telescope found them. However, they actually represent supermassive black holes hundreds of millions of times the size of our Sun. A new paper from Federica Loiacono and her colleagues at Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica in Italy describes one of these behemoths they found with the James Webb Space Telescope at a period of the early universe, about 11 billion years ago, known as the “cosmic noon”.

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Breakthrough Listen Releases Results for 27 Eclipsing Exoplanets

We live in an exciting time of technological innovation and breakthroughs in astronomy, cosmology, and astrophysics. This is similarly true for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), which seeks to leverage advances in instrumentation and computing to find evidence of "technosignatures" in the Universe. While the scope has expanded considerably since Cornell Professor Frank Drake and colleagues conducted the first SETI experiment over sixty years ago (Project Ozma), the vast majority have consisted of listening to space for signs of possible radio transmissions.

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Superman's biggest weakness isn't kryptonite; It's that every Man of Steel movie to date has a disappointing ending

He may be faster than a speeding bullet, but Superman has a long-standing problem with final acts.


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