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250 articles · February — October 2026
October 2026 13 articles
- Weekly Digest — October 9, 2026
- Supernova 2025wny: a lens magnified it 19-fold
- Niobium in Hubble Data Hints at a Second-Generation Planet
- First stars may help seed supermassive black holes
- Nobel Physics Prize Goes to IceCube Leader Francis Halzen
- Mass of AN Col's Hot Companion Measured
- SN 2025ulz in Radio: Supernova or Kilonova?
- Weekly Digest — October 2, 2026
- A 15-Million-Year-Old Planet Found Around a Red Dwarf
- Giant Planets May Fall Apart a Billion Times Sooner
- Roman's Coronagraph Takes Its First Test Image
- Sky Calendar — October 2026: Saturn, Draconids and Orionids
- JWST Finds Infrared Counterpart of the Rapid Burster in Liller 1
September 2026 36 articles
- Smile Begins Science: First Images of the Aurora
- Blazar jet's polarization angle rotated 136° in 80 minutes
- Triple star systems explain black-hole merger mass peak
- JWST spots four faint clusters hidden in M82's halo
- Stellar pulsations hint at a habitable-zone planet
- Weekly Digest — September 25, 2026
- Micro-tidal star disruptions outnumber black hole mergers
- NASA Advances PRIMA, First Telescope in Probe Explorers Class
- Ultra-hot Jupiter TOI-2109 b's orbit wobbles and shrinks
- Hubble Hits 200,000 Orbits Hunting Supernova Athena
- Webb finds brown dwarfs as light as two Jupiters
- Chandra Spots Strange Objects in the Pinwheel Galaxy
- Tightest Known Binary Black Hole Found in NGC 5044
- How star clumps form in reionization-era galaxies
- Weekly Digest — September 18, 2026
- Gamma-ray burst might be a thousand times brighter than magnetar flares
- FOSSIL aims for thousandfold sharper cosmic background readings
- Chandra catalogs 327 X-ray sources near cluster Abell 2744
- Elias 2-24 b Is the Youngest Known Exoplanet
- Mars Express reveals purple cliffs near Mars’s pole
- INTEGRAL Limits the Share of Primordial Black Holes
- Little Red Dots May Mark Black Hole Birth
- JWST traces the origin of carbon dioxide ice on Uranus's moons
- NASA-IBM AI Model Spots a New Crater on the Moon
- Weekly Digest — September 11, 2026
- 11% of Dawn-Era Quasars Accrete Near the Eddington Limit
- Hubble finds the youngest known pulsar companion
- JWST sets first primordial black hole limits toward M31
- Most Distant Galaxy Proto-Supercluster Weighs 5,000 Milky Ways
- Weekly Digest — September 4, 2026
- The Universe's First Stars May Have Birthed Planets
- Hubble spots new ten-sided pattern at Saturn's south pole
- Why early supermassive black holes grew in free fall
- Sky Calendar — Moon to Hide Venus in Daylight on September 14
- Why SN 2023ixf Likely Formed a Neutron Star, Not a Black Hole
- JWST Captures First Direct Spectrum of GJ 504 b
August 2026 44 articles
- One first-principles model explains GW170817 completely
- Roman Space Telescope launches toward L2 on five-year mission
- Weekly Digest — August 28, 2026
- BepiColombo to release transfer module near Mercury
- NASA's Pandora Satellite Starts Studying 20 Exoplanets
- A plasma blob explains the shape of the M87 jet
- TOI-561b: a lava world with a mirror-like atmosphere
- Why AT 2016blu Flares Every 113 Days
- JWST maps the chemistry of comet ZTF in detail
- An M dwarf's age decides a planet's methane and ozone fate
- Weekly Digest — August 21, 2026
- JWST reveals: two "quasars" are galaxies with supermassive stars
- Dust ring around PDS 70c may be forming moons
- Milky Way's fastest star feels a black hole's spin
- LRO Images the Crater Left by Falcon 9 on the Moon
- BHEX Could Resolve Shadows of Dozens of Black Holes
- How Neptune's Capture May Have Powered Triton's Dynamo
- Astronomers name LKH, ancestor of the Milky Way
- Merger's tidal tail leaks 99% of ionizing light
- Weekly Digest — August 14, 2026
- NASA outlines 70 science cases for Habitable Worlds Observatory
- Longest gamma-ray burst explained by star torn apart by black hole
- JWST spots dense protocluster "The Step" near a z=3 quasar
- Why the Tarantula Nebula Lost Its Hot Gas
- Webb finds dust and water near Milky Way's black hole
- DESI mapped the sky with 4 billion objects
- James Webb Finds Alien Ice on Uranus' Moons
- Total Solar Eclipse August 12: ESA Streams It Live
- Cosmic strings proposed to explain JWST galaxy surplus
- Binary stars vanish in the middle of star clusters
- IXPE watches a magnetar for 140 hours straight
- Weekly Digest — August 7, 2026
- Webb finds 70 young stars inside Carina's "Treasure Chest"
- PUNCH predicts solar storm arrival within 30 minutes
- Supernova 500 Million Light-Years Away Exploded Without a Jet
- Supernovae Create a "Fog" for the LISA Detector
- Sgr A East’s X-ray glow finally separated from the black hole
- Two failed-galaxy clouds discovered near galaxy M51
- White Dwarf Found Hiding Near Star 68 Light-Years Away
- Gas Clump Hebe: First Stars or a Black Hole
- 3I/ATLAS: A Comet Older Than the Sun
- Why a black hole jet silenced the "Red Potato" galaxy
- Rocky Planet in Habitable Zone Shown to Have Atmosphere
- ESO calculates how many satellites the night sky can bear
July 2026 42 articles
- Weekly Digest — July 31, 2026
- How Martian Auroras Form: MAVEN Explains the Mechanism
- XRISM finds record turbulence near a quasar in a cluster
- A satellite found not near a planet, but a brown dwarf
- Explore This — Mars Trek
- Swift finds black hole 30,000 light-years from galaxy core
- Why the LIFE Interferometer Could Outdo HWO in the Search for Life
- Where the Magnetic Field for Star-Shredding Jets Comes From
- z≈6 quasars punch through gas, light up Hα nebulae
- ALMA finds galaxies invisible to JWST at z=6.6
- JWST finds γ Ophiuchi's dust disk unbroken by rings
- CAPSTONE 02 to test two spacecraft rendezvous near Moon
- ALMA revisits the odd isotopes in Jupiter's HCN
- Weekly Digest — July 24, 2026
- Why some early galaxies are blue and others red
- Two Spheres in Orbit Will Hunt Microhertz Gravitational Waves
- Roman Telescope Set to Launch Nine Months Early
- This Actually Exists — The Cusp-Core Problem
- Plato passes its final exam before 2027 launch
- First 3D map of thermal gas phases near the Sun
- Psyche Captured the Growing Crescent of Mars Before Flyby
- Weekly Digest — July 17, 2026
- DECam captures stars and nebulae of "The Starry Night"
- How many transits ELT needs to detect oxygen
- Beta Pictoris third planet found by its spectrum
- Roman Telescope Will Catch Stars Shredded by Black Holes
- A shredded star switched X-ray states like a binary
- Hubble finds first of Omega Centauri’s thousands of black holes
- Curiosity Accidentally Crushed a Rock of Pure Sulfur
- Can You Steal a Star's Spin: First Search in Kepler Field
- Weekly Digest — July 10, 2026
- IXPE Maps Magnetic Field of ‘Lighthouse’ Pulsar for First Time
- Stellar mergers in clusters may spin up black holes
- IceCube searched for neutrinos from O4a gravitational waves
- Early Universe galaxies formed their stars in 30 million years
- Webb reveals millions of individual stars in Centaurus A
- Euclid finds the most ancient quasars in the Universe
- Ultra-dense super-Earth at TOI-4311 challenges formation theories
- Atmosphere of a planet orbiting a white dwarf studied
- How the SKA Will Help Decode Pulsar Wind Nebulae
- Rubin Observatory Begins Its Ten-Year Sky Survey
- X-ray echoes revise the distance to outer arms
June 2026 6 articles
- AI Proposes New Dark Energy Equations — and They Work
- "Shadow Blaster" Galaxy — A Possible Source of a Ghost Particle
- Webb and Hubble Found a "Fossil Fragment" of Our Galaxy
- Hubble Captures a "Swarm" of Galaxies
- Webb Reveals Every Stage of Star Birth in a Single Frame
- Exoplanet Winds Point to Magnetic Fields — For the First Time
May 2026 18 articles
- A Black Hole That Appeared Before Its Galaxy
- JWST Captures One of the Most Distant Supernovae Ever Observed
- Proxima Centauri's Planets Magnetically Interact With Their Star
- Total Solar Eclipse on August 12, 2026 — First in Europe in 20 Years
- Lunar Robots: NASA Spotlights Moon Base at 2026 FIRST Robotics Championship
- Fermi Telescope Makes First Definitive Detection of Gamma Rays From a Superluminous Supernova
- Explore This — Orbitviewer
- Hubble Captures a Galaxy in Transition
- Perseverance Snaps a Selfie on Mars' "Wild West"
- Explore This — Stellarium Web
- "Dark Sirens" — How Gravitational Waves Measure the Expansion of the Universe
- Relic Cluster Tonantzintla 2 — A Witness to the Milky Way's Earliest Days
- Weekly Digest — May 8, 2026
- Webb Reveals the Squid Galaxy in a New Light
- This Actually Exists — Pulsar
- How Small Can a Habitable Planet Be?
- Weekly Digest — May 1, 2026
- A Spiral Neighbor of the Milky Way Through Hubble's Lens
April 2026 35 articles
- Chandra and Webb Unlock the Mystery of "Little Red Dots"
- NASA Tests Powerful Lithium-Fed Thruster for Mars Missions
- JWST Reveals Layered Gas Outflows from a Black Hole in Dwarf Galaxy NGC 4395
- How to Photograph Another Earth: NASA Is Designing the HWO Telescope
- Uneven Glow of M87's Ring Points to a Spinning Black Hole
- Weekly Digest — April 24, 2026
- IV Fluid in Space: NASA Learns to Make Saline Solution On Orbit
- Asteroid Mining for a Mars Colony: A Logistics Perspective
- Roman Space Telescope: Launch Targeting Early September 2026
- Hubble celebrates 36 years with a new Trifid Nebula image
- Light from within the shadow: what if it's not a black hole?
- Weekly Digest — April 17, 2026
- The "Eye of the Sahara": The Richat Structure from Space
- "Interstellar Glaciers": SPHEREx Maps Vast Icy Regions of the Galaxy
- A Dynamical Stress Test for the Physics Behind a Runaway Black Hole's Cold Tail
- DESI Completes the Largest 3D Map of the Universe
- Curiosity Approaches Crater Antofagasta
- A Metal-Rich Super-Jupiter: JWST Solves the Mystery of a Giant World's Origins
- The Magellanic Clouds Are Heating Half the Sky
- The Universe's Expansion Rate Is Precise — and Still Doesn't Add Up
- Artemis II: The Crew Is Home
- Weekly Digest — April 10, 2026
- A Protoplanet Candidate in the PDS 66 Disk: A Silicon Sulfide Trail
- Comet ZTF Under Two Telescopes
- This Actually Exists — Ganymede
- PLATO Mission: How Scientists Choose Stars to Find Another Earth
- Artemis II Crew Eclipses Apollo 13's 56-Year Record — and the Far Side of the …
- SN 2025wny: A Supernova Seen Five Times Over
- Two Discs on the Edge of Planet Formation
- A Comet From Another Star: What Juice Revealed
- Weekly Digest — April 3, 2026
- WISPIT 2's Second Planet: Catching Formation in the Act
- Exoplanets Inherit Rocky-Element Ratios from Their Stars — First Direct Evidence
- Bright in Radio, Dark to Everything Else
- Smile: Last Glimpse Before Launch
March 2026 43 articles
- Stellar Collisions at Cosmic Dawn: From Proto-Clusters to Little Red Dots
- A Sub-Solar Gravitational Wave: A Hint of Primordial Black Holes?
- When Clouds Collide, Star Clusters Are Born
- The Cluttered Orbit: How Humanity Is Filling Near-Earth Space
- RCW 86: An X-Ray Portrait of a Supernova Witnessed by Human Eyes
- Weekly Digest — March 27, 2026
- Steam Around a Dying Giant: Hot Water Vapor Detected in a B[e] Supergiant for the …
- Explore This — Interactive 3D App for Exploring the Solar System
- IceCube "Hears" Seyfert Galaxies: Neutrino Emission Confirmed in the Southern Sky
- The First Stars of the Universe: JWST Opens a Window on Cosmic Dawn
- The Crab Nebula: 25 Years Under Hubble's Watch
- Quasars in Place: JWST and ALMA Find No Offset Between Early Black Holes and Their …
- A Comet from Another Star: How NASA's Open Data Turned 3I/ATLAS into a Time Capsule
- Weekly Digest — March 20, 2026
- Nunki: The Closest Star to the Sun Heading for Core Collapse
- Hubble Catches a Comet in the Act of Breaking Apart
- This Actually Exists — Neutron Stars: Creation of Heaviest Elements
- 100 Years of Liquid-Fueled Rocketry
- A Second-Generation Star: The Chemical Fingerprint of the Universe's First Stars Found in a Relic …
- How the Milky Way Ate Other Galaxies: Reconstructing Its Merger History
- EHT Resolves Opposite Polarization Rotations in OJ 287's Jet — Direct Evidence for a Helical …
- First Science Image of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS from JUICE
- Weekly Digest — March 13, 2026
- The Milky Way Is Off-Balance — and We've Measured It
- ε Ind Ab: The Coldest Exoplanet Under JWST's Microscope
- This Actually Exists — Quasars: The Brightest Beacons of the Universe
- Electronics for Ice Worlds: NASA Solves a Problem That Seemed Unsolvable
- Returning from the Radiation Belt: Van Allen Probe A Falls Back to Earth
- ELTI: An Interferometer for a Telescope That Isn't Finished Yet
- Rubin Observatory Will Catch Asteroids Before They Hit Earth
- How to Track NASA's Artemis Missions Live: AROW Tracker, Artemis II Recap and Artemis III …
- The Dark Fate of Dwarf Galaxies: Collapse From Within
- NASA's DART Mission Moved Asteroid Didymos Around the Sun
- Weekly Digest — March 6, 2026
- A Solar Superstorm Hit Mars — and Scientists Caught It All
- Illuminating the Dark Universe: What Multi-Messenger Astronomy Tells Us About Invisible Matter
- Mars Through Billions of Years: Craters, Dunes, and Traces of Ancient Water
- Explore This — NASA's 3D Exoplanet Map: Explore the Milky Way
- 139 Gravitational Lenses: A New Catalog for Studying the Universe
- Cat's Eye Nebula: Hubble and Euclid Capture a Dying Star in Stunning Detail
- M87*: Watching the Most Famous Black Hole Change Over Time
- When Two Dead Stars Collide: The Secret Behind the Universe's Brightest Explosions
- Cosmic Dust Through Time: What JWST Reveals About Galaxy Evolution
February 2026 13 articles
- The "Exposed Cranium" Nebula: Webb Captures a Dying Star in Detail
- Weekly Digest — February 27, 2026
- Cold and Superpuffy: The Record-Breaking Orbit of TOI-4507 b
- Planetary Parade: NASA Turned Three Planets Into Music
- Rubin Observatory Launches Real-Time Alert System for the Night Sky
- This Actually Exists — Jupiter: The Star That Never Was
- Gaia24ccy: A Star That Repeats Itself
- A Warm Neptune Just Surprised Astronomers With a Possible Stratosphere
- SETI: Could We Have Already Missed Signals from Other Civilizations?
- LISA will detect black hole mergers before they happen
- JWST Detects a Supernova Following a Gamma-Ray Burst 13 Billion Light-Years Away
- Black Holes and Galaxies: Who's Really in Charge?
- The Stellar Lifecycle in a Nearby Spiral Galaxy