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Science
Spain's Total Eclipse: First Over Europe in 11 Years
On August 12, a total solar eclipse swept across Spain and the Arctic — the first visible from European mainland since 1905, drawing millions of spectators.
Science
Scientists Spot New Cosmic Object: a 'Black Hole Star'
Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to find MoM-BH*-1, a cosmic body the size of our solar system that glows like a star but releases energy like a black hole.
Science
Sun's Magnetic 'Whirlpools' Seen for First Time
The NSF Inouye Solar Telescope has captured the highest-resolution solar surface images ever taken, revealing spinning magnetic vortices that power space weather.
Science
First Moon Outside Our Solar System Detected by VLT
Scientists using ESO's Very Large Telescope found a Jupiter-sized body orbiting a brown dwarf — the most compelling exomoon detection ever made.
Science
Scientists Can Now Predict Solar Storms Years in Advance
A newly found 'switch-off' point in the Sun's 11-year cycle lets scientists spot when the most violent space weather is coming — years before it arrives, not just hours.
News
Scientists Find Faintest Exoplanet Ever Seen From Earth
Two independent teams — one using JWST, one the Very Large Telescope — confirmed Beta Pictoris d, a gas giant that had hidden in telescope images for over a decade.
Technology
World's Largest Telescope Hits Major Milestone in Chile
ESO's 39-meter Extremely Large Telescope clears a landmark construction hurdle, bringing humanity's biggest eye on the sky closer to first light.
Science
Rubin Observatory Begins 10-Year Cosmic Survey
The world's most powerful survey telescope opened its eye on the southern sky on June 30 — beginning a 10-year census of billions of stars and galaxies.
Science
31 Oldest Quasars Ever Found: Universe Was Just 5% Its Age
ESA's Euclid telescope discovered 31 ancient quasars — two formed just 670 million years after the Big Bang, the oldest ever observed, shining with the light of a trillion suns.
Science
JWST Cracks the 'Pink Planet' Mystery: Salt Clouds 57 Light-Years Away
The James Webb Space Telescope has finally peered inside GJ 504b, a strange pink-hued world orbiting a sun-like star, and found something never confirmed before in such an object: skies laced with salt.
Science
Venus, Jupiter and Mercury Will Line Up With the Moon in June
A rare June 2026 conjunction will string the solar system's two brightest planets across the sky, with Mercury and a crescent Moon joining the line on the 16th.
Science
JWST Solves Saturn's 20-Year Spin Mystery: It's the Aurora
James Webb Telescope data shows Saturn's shifting rotation rate isn't the planet — it's a self-sustaining cycle of auroras, winds, and electrical currents driving its upper atmosphere.
Science
JWST Just Read the Surface of a Distant Planet for the First Time
Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to directly characterize the rocky surface of LHS 3844 b — a tidally locked super-Earth 49 light-years away — confirming it is a barren, atmosphere-free world.
Science
Astronomers Find 27 New "Tatooine" Planets Orbiting Two Suns
A new survey announced on Star Wars Day more than doubles the known count of planets orbiting two stars at once — jumping the catalog from 18 to 45.
News
JWST Spots Water-Ice Clouds on a Jupiter-Like World 12 Light-Years Away
The James Webb Space Telescope directly imaged Epsilon Indi Ab, a cool gas giant near Earth's neighborhood, and found water-ice clouds where current models said there shouldn't be any.
Science
Astronomers Find the Universe's Most Pristine Star
A star with less than 0.005% of the Sun's metals has been discovered drifting into the Milky Way — offering a rare window into the universe's earliest era.
Science
Webb Telescope Discovers a Bizarre 'Sulfur World' — A Brand-New Type of Exoplanet
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified an entirely new class of exoplanet: a sulfur-drenched world with a molten interior, just 35 light-years from Earth.