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Clues from Butterfly Nebula dust advance knowledge of rocky planet originsLondon UK (SPX) Sep 01, 2025 Clues about the formation of Earth-like planets have emerged from the Butterfly Nebula NGC 6302, where astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope and ALMA to probe its dusty heart. The combined ... more 
Surprising carbon dioxide rich disk challenges planet theoryBerlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 01, 2025 A team led by Stockholm University has identified a young star surrounded by a disk unusually dominated by carbon dioxide, defying current theories of planet formation. Using the James Webb Space Te ... more 
A growing baby planet photographed for first time in a ring of darknessTucson AZ (SPX) Sep 01, 2025 A team of astronomers has detected for the first time a growing planet outside our solar system, embedded in a cleared gap of a multi-ringed disk of dust and gas. The team, led by University o ... more  
Gaia uncovers vast networks of stellar clusters across the Milky WayParis, France (SPX) Sep 01, 2025 Gaia, the European Space Agency's star-mapping mission, has redrawn our understanding of stellar communities in the Milky Way. After more than a decade of observations, the spacecraft revealed that ... more |
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Warped planet forming discs challenge long held models of planetary birthLondon, UK (SPX) Sep 01, 2025 Scientists studying the origins of planetary systems have found that protoplanetary discs are often warped, overturning the traditional view of smooth, flat discs. The findings, published in the Ast ... more 
MWA enters Phase III: A new era for WA's window on the UniversePerth, Australia (SPX) Sep 01, 2025 Western Australia's Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) has entered its next chapter, with the completion of an upgrade set to expand our view of the Universe and solidify WA's role as a global hub for ... more 
Astronomers puzzled by carbon-loaded protoplanetary diskBerlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 01, 2025 A research team led by Stockholm University has identified a planet-forming disk with an unexpectedly high concentration of carbon dioxide, detected in the terrestrial planet-forming region around a ... more 
JUNO detector filled and operational for neutrino researchTokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 01, 2025 The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) in Guangdong Province has completed the filling of its 20,000 tons of liquid scintillator and initiated data taking, marking a major milestone af ... more |
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Star's Tumultuous Core Uncovered Before Supernova BlastLos Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 01, 2025 New results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory reveal that Cassiopeia A's progenitor star violently reshaped its interior just hours before it exploded. This previously hidden stellar upheaval he ... more |
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JWST observes planetary building blocks in Butterfly NebulaWashington DC (UPI) Aug 28, 2025 The James Webb Space Telescope has helped researchers learn new information about how the Earth may have been formed as it gives a deeper look into the Butterfly Nebula. ... more 
New detectors aim to capture lighter forms of dark matterLos Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 01, 2025 The search for elusive dark matter has gained a new tool, now operating deep within the French Alps. An international team, including Johns Hopkins University scientists, has deployed an ultrasensit ... more 
Massive binary star system confirmed in Milky Way clusterFlagstaff AZ (SPX) Aug 26, 2025 A team of astronomers led by Dr. Phil Massey of Lowell Observatory has taken the sharpest look yet at one of the heaviest pairs of stars in our galaxy, known as NGC 3603-A1. Using previously unpubli ... more 
Model brings clarity to water rich exoplanets called steam worldsSanta Cruz CA (SPX) Aug 26, 2025 For astrobiologists, the search for life beyond our solar system could be likened to where one would look in a vast desert-essentially, where there's water. And it turns out that one of the most com ... more |
Giant star stripped to its core reveals origins of silicon and sulfurLos Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 26, 2025 Researchers led by Northwestern University and the Weizmann Institute of Science have identified a rare type of supernova that exposes the hidden inner layers of a massive star, revealing where heav ... more  |
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Interstellar comet 3I ATLAS studied by Webb Hubble and SPHERExWashington DC (SPX) Aug 26, 2025 NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured new data on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS using its Near-Infrared Spectrograph during observations on August 6. Researchers are now analyzing the results ... more
Mapping star spots with NASA missions offers new insight into exoplanetsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 26, 2025 Scientists have developed a new technique to chart the star spots of distant suns using data from NASA's TESS and Kepler missions. The method, called StarryStarryProcess, builds on long-standing mod ... more  
New spectroscopy method reveals hidden atomic transitions in samariumBerlin, Germany (SPX) Aug 26, 2025 Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM) have demonstrated a new spectroscopy approach that reveals previously unknown transitions in samarium ... more 
New model shows how collapsing matter and voids shape cosmic evolutionSydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 20, 2025 A University of Queensland researcher has developed a mathematical framework that incorporates collapsing regions of matter and expanding cosmic voids to explain the universe's evolution in greater ... more |
New spectroscopy method reveals hidden atomic transitions in samariumBerlin, Germany (SPX) Aug 25, 2025 Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM) have demonstrated a new spectroscopy approach that reveals previously unknown transitions in samarium ... more 
Dark energy black holes align with DESI data to yield realistic neutrino massesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 22, 2025 Dark energy, once thought constant across time, may instead evolve through the universe, according to new results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). Researchers show that interpre ... more 
First-of-its-kind supernova reveals innerworkings of a dying starEvanston IL (SPX) Aug 22, 2025 An international team of scientists, led by Northwestern University astrophysicists, has detected a never-before-seen type of exploding star, or supernova, that is rich with silicon, sulfur and argo ... more 
Astronomers capture a record 130-year evolution of a dying starManchester UK (SPX) Aug 22, 2025 For the first time, scientists have directly tracked the slow transformation of a dying star over more than a century - revealing it is heating up faster than any other typical star ever observed. ... more |
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Early detection methods refine study of stellar explosionsParis, France (SPX) Aug 22, 2025 Supernovae are sudden stellar explosions that flare brightly in the sky, making them difficult to capture in their earliest moments. With modern wide-field, high-cadence sky surveys, astronomers can ... more 
Supernovae: How to spot them at record speedParis, France (SPX) Aug 22, 2025 Supernovae appear to our eyes-and to astronomical instruments-as brilliant flashes that flare up in the sky without warning, in places where nothing was visible just moments before. The flash is cau ... more 
Using exoplanets to study dark matterRiverside CA (SPX) Aug 22, 2025 More than 5,000 planets have been discovered beyond our solar system, allowing scientists to explore planetary evolution and consider the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Now, a UC Riverside ... more 
What came before the Big Bang remains a mystery but new tools may helpLondon, UK (SPX) Aug 21, 2025 A team of physicists is arguing that one of the biggest taboos in cosmology-asking what existed before the big bang-can now be approached using numerical relativity. In a new paper published in Livi ... more |
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Gas streamers reveal how massive young stars gain their massTokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 21, 2025 A research team led by Kyoto University and the University of Tokyo has identified gas streamers as a key mechanism feeding high-mass young stars, challenging the long-held assumption that large acc ... more |
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Gaia data maps variable stars across Milky Way clustersBerlin, Germany (SPX) Aug 15, 2025 Using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, Richard I. Anderson of EPFL and Emily Hunt of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy produced the first galaxy-scale map linking variable st ... more 
TRAPPIST-1 d ruled out as Earth twin by Webb studyParis, France (SPX) Aug 15, 2025 Astronomers have determined that TRAPPIST-1 d, a rocky exoplanet similar in size to Earth and located in a potentially temperate zone, lacks an Earth-like atmosphere based on new NASA/ESA/CSA James ... more 
Chemists Help Solve Mystery of Missing Space SulfurOxford MS (SPX) Aug 13, 2025 For decades, astrochemists have been looking for sulfur atoms in space and finding surprisingly little of the element that is a key ingredient to life. A new study could point to where it has been h ... more 
Magnetic field mapping in Sagittarius C reveals new clues to Milky Way core dynamicsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 13, 2025 The complex and turbulent Galactic Center has long challenged astronomers attempting to model its underlying physics. Now, new measurements of the magnetic field in Sagittarius C, a region within th ... more |
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