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Europa Clipper spectrograph tracks interstellar comet 3I ATLAS
Dec 19, 2025 (SPX)
Europa Clipper launched in 2024 and is scheduled to arrive at Jupiter in 2030, where it will orbit the planet and conduct 49 close flybys of the icy moon Europa...
Carruthers observatory returns first ultraviolet views of Earth and Moon
Dec 17, 2025 (SPX)
The observatory's Wide Field Imager and Narrow Field Imager each obtained two views: one using a broad far-ultraviolet filter and another tuned to light from Ea...
CoDICE instrument returns first-light particle data for IMAP mission
Dec 17, 2025 (SPX)
IMAP will map the structure of this heliospheric boundary and examine how it interacts with the local interstellar environment beyond the solar system. As the s...
Supernova at edge of observable universe spotted by James Webb Space Telescope
Dec 17, 2025 (SPX)
The explosion, designated SN in GRB 250314A, was first identified on March 14, 2025 as a bright burst of high-energy radiation detected by the space-based multi...
ALMA completes band two receiver chain with low noise amplifiers
Dec 17, 2025 (SPX)
ALMA operates 66 individual parabolic antennas with diameters of 12 meters or 7 meters, each equipped with high-frequency receivers that together span ten wavel...
Possible superkilonova exploded not once but twice
Dec 17, 2025 (SPX)
So far, only one kilonova has been unambiguously confirmed to date, a historic event known as GW170817, which took place in 2017. In that case, two neutron star...
Gemini North tracks changing glow of interstellar Comet 3IATLAS
Dec 16, 2025 (SPX)
The observations were conducted as part of a Shadow the Scientists session, an outreach program that connects students and the public with astronomers during li...
ESO signs MOSAIC deal for Extremely Large Telescope spectrograph
Dec 12, 2025 (SPX)
"We are delighted that AIP, with its many years of expertise in multi-object spectroscopy, will be contributing to key work packages of MOSAIC. Our task is to d...
UChicago survey expands weak lensing test of the dark universe
Dec 12, 2025 (SPX)
From 2013 to 2019, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) used DECam on the 4-meter Blanco Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile to measure the sh...
Roman infrared survey to chart hidden structure of Milky Way
Dec 12, 2025 (SPX)
"The Galactic Plane Survey will revolutionize our understanding of the Milky Way," said Julie McEnery, Roman's senior project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space ...
Roman space telescope passes key construction milestone ahead of launch window
Dec 12, 2025 (SPX)
NASA officials describe completion of the observatory as a major step toward a mission designed to address fundamental questions about the universe. "Completing...
Milky Way chemical map shows diverse paths to galactic evolution
Dec 12, 2025 (SPX)
Astronomers have long noted that solar-neighbourhood stars fall into two main sequences when plotted by their iron and magnesium content, a feature known as che...
Shaping quantum light expands options for future technologies
Dec 12, 2025 (SPX)
Their work, presented as a review article in Nature Photonics, surveys recent progress in generating, manipulating and detecting quantum structured light. The s...
Solar ghost particles seen flipping carbon atoms in underground detector
Dec 11, 2025 (SPX)
Neutrinos, sometimes called ghost particles, rarely interact with matter even though trillions pass through every person each second, and they are produced in n...
Nova images capture complex stellar blast behavior
Dec 09, 2025 (SPX)
The study captured detailed images of two stellar explosions known as novae within days of their eruption, showing that these events involve multiple outflows o...
Record gamma ray burst traced to dusty massive host galaxy
Dec 09, 2025 (SPX)
Infrared observations with ESOs Very Large Telescope confirmed that GRB 250702B originated in a galaxy outside the Milky Way. A team led by Jonathan Carney at t...
New mass measurements refine X ray burst reaction flow
Dec 05, 2025 (SPX)
The study reports high precision mass measurements of these proton rich nuclei, which are important for modeling the rapid proton capture process, or rp process...
Gravitational wave signals reveal dark matter around black holes
Dec 05, 2025 (SPX)
Rodrigo Vicente, Theophanes K. Karydas and Gianfranco Bertone from the UvA Institute of Physics and the GRAPPA centre of excellence for Gravitation and Astropar...
Cosmic rays drive urgent search for better protection before crewed trips to Mars
Dec 03, 2025 (SPX)
Next year, Nasa's Artemis II mission will send four astronauts to fly around the Moon to test the spacecraft before future landings. The following year, two ast...
JWST spots early Milky Way style spiral galaxy Alaknanda
Dec 03, 2025 (SPX)
The galaxy was found in JWST images obtained as part of the UNCOVER and MegaScience surveys, which provided data in 21 different filters spanning a wide range o...
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