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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 4h
Italian National Institute for Astrophysics: NGC 362D: Two Record-Breaking Findings Shed Light on the Evolution of Millisecond Pulsars www.inaf.it/en/inaf-news...
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NGC 362D: TWO RECORD-BREAKING FINDINGS SHED LIGHT ON THE EVOLUTION OF MILLISECOND PULSARS — English
An INAF- and University of Bologna-led research team has discovered a binary system caught in an exceptionally rare evolutionary stage, consisting of a millisecond pulsar and the youngest white dwarf ...
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 4h
Chandra X-ray Center: A Cleaner Look at Our Galactic Center's Hot Mess chandra.si.edu/photo/2026/s...
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Chandra :: Photo Album :: Sagittarius A East :: September 30, 2026
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 5h
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan: Stratospheric Observatory Sunrise-III Reveals Intricate Solar Magnetic Structures www.nao.ac.jp/en/news/scie...
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Stratospheric Observatory Sunrise-III Reveals Intricate Solar Magnetic Structures | NAOJ - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
In separate observations of a quiet-Sun region near the solar limb (visible edge of the Sun), Sunrise-III mapped the magnetic fields of spicules, jet-like structures extending upward from the solar su...
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 29/09/2026
SETI Institute: SETI Institute Welcomes Three New Postdoctoral Fellows www.seti.org/news/three-n...
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Three New Postdoctoral Fellows
The new fellows will study the evolution of viruses and cells, habitability on Mars and the formation of planetary systems.
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 29/09/2026
European Space Agency: Galaxies in a Cosmic House of Mirrors www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
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Galaxies in a cosmic house of mirrors
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 29/09/2026
University of Michigan: Suns Set on Hunt for Giant Planets in Nearby Binary System news.umich.edu/suns-set-on-...
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Suns set on hunt for giant planets in nearby binary system
New research led by the University of Michigan is helping set the stage for future observatories to characterize rocky planets outside our solar system, planets that could prove life isn't confined to...
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 29/09/2026
National Solar Observatory: Taming The Sun: An Update on the Massive Cooling Network of the National Science Foundation Inouye Solar Telescope nso.edu/blog/taming-...
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Taming The Sun: An Update on the Massive Cooling Network of the NSF Inouye Solar Telescope - NSO - National Solar Observatory
Learn how recent engineering upgrades to the Inouye Solar Telescope cooling system improve efficiency, reliability, and image quality.
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 29/09/2026
Arizona State University: Black Hole Jets May Shape the Fate of Entire Galaxies news.asu.edu/b/20260924-b...
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Black hole jets may shape the fate of entire galaxies | ASU News
Galaxies are enormous and hold hundreds of billions of stars.These stars form from cold, dense gas. Every large galaxy, including the Milky Way, is wrapped in a huge envelope of gas called the circumg...
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 29/09/2026
European Space Agency: Successful Earth Flyby Improves Juice’s Course to Jupiter www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
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Successful Earth flyby improves Juice’s course to Jupiter
The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) skimmed the very outer edge of Earth’s atmosphere on 28 September, using the gravity of our home planet to alter its route to Jupiter usi...
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 28/09/2026
University of British Columbia: Canadian Telescope Directly Maps Earliest Glow of Hydrogen, Opening a New Window on the Universe news.ubc.ca/2026/09/cana...
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Canadian telescope directly maps earliest glow of hydrogen, opening a new window on the universe - UBC News
The CHIME telescope has made its first standalone detection of the glow of hydrogen from when the universe was about five billion years old, paving the way for new studies of cosmic expansion and dark...
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 28/09/2026
NASA: Roman Team Confirms Ground Stations Receiving Data science.nasa.gov/blogs/roman/...
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NASA’s Roman Team Confirms Ground Stations Receiving Data - NASA Science
NASA has now confirmed all ground stations supporting the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope are ready to receive the mission’s high volume of data
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 28/09/2026
NASA: Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging (DAVINCI) Beats Heat in Preparation for Blistering Venus Descent science.nasa.gov/blogs/davinc...
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NASA’s DAVINCI Beats Heat in Preparation for Blistering Venus Descent - NASA Science
An engineering model of NASA’s DAVINCI (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging) descent probe passed a key test that ran
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 28/09/2026
NASA: Swift Observatory Powers On Third Instrument, Restarts Automated Slewing science.nasa.gov/blogs/swift/...
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NASA’s Swift Powers On Third Instrument, Restarts Automated Slewing - NASA Science
NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has resumed use of its third science instrument and automatically repointing to examine new high-energy flashes in the sky.
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 28/09/2026
NASA: NASA Highlights Lessons Learned From Swift Boost Mission science.nasa.gov/missions/swi...
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NASA Highlights Lessons Learned From Swift Boost Mission - NASA Science
A commercial mission to boost NASA’s Swift observatory concluded without raising the spacecraft’s orbit, but the agency and industry vendor gained valuable experience that will benefit future in-space...
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 28/09/2026
Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC): SN 2021lwz: Another Exotic, Luminous, and Fast-Evolving Optical Stripped-Envelope Supernova? www.iac.es/en/outreach/...
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SN 2021lwz: Another exotic, luminous, and fast-evolving optical stripped-envelope supernova?
SN 2021lwz: Understanding an Unusual Stellar ExplosionDiscovery and Initial MysteryOn May 10, 2021, astronomers detected a supernova called SN 2021lwz at a distance of approximately 900 million light-...
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 28/09/2026
International School for Advanced Studies: El Gordo: Dark Matter Could Be Self-Interacting www.sissa.it/news/el-gord...
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El Gordo: Dark Matter Could Be Self-Interacting
Simulations of El Gordo, one of the most massive and distant galaxy clusters ever observed, provide strong indications that dark matter could interact with itself through collisions. The study, conduc...
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 28/09/2026
SPIE: Testing an Antenna Layout for the Square Kilometre Array-Low Telescope spie.org/news/testing...
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Testing an antenna layout for the SKA-Low telescope
On-sky observations confirm a predicted sensitivity loss at 125 MHz, informing the antenna layout for SKA-Low
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 28/09/2026
University of Maryland: New Study Detects Ammonia and Unexpected Chill on a Distant Giant Planet cmns.umd.edu/news-events/...
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New Study Detects Ammonia and Unexpected Chill on a Distant Giant Planet | College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences | University of Maryland
A UMD-led team found water, methane and a rare ammonia signal in the atmosphere of HATS-6 b, a large planet orbi
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 28/09/2026
Free University of Berlin: Great News from Saturn’s Moon Enceladus in the Search for Life in Space www.fu-berlin.de/en/presse/in...
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Great News from Saturn’s Moon Enceladus in the Search for Life in Space
Planetary scientists from Freie Universität Berlin have published two new studies with promising discoveries about the potential for life on Enceladus.
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 25/09/2026
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA): NASA Selects New Far-Infrared Telescope PRIMA with MPIA Providing Crucial Hardware www.mpia.de/news/2026-pr...
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NASA selects new far-infrared telescope PRIMA with MPIA providing crucial hardware
NASA's PRIMA telescope advances, with MPIA providing key hardware to explore the universe's far-infrared mysteries.
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 25/09/2026
University of Chicago: Study Led by UChicago Scientists Finds Atmosphere on the Coldest Lava World to Date news.uchicago.edu/story/study-...
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Study led by UChicago scientists finds atmosphere on the coldest lava world to date
Studying the atmospheres of lava worlds offers window to Earth’s earliest history, pathway to habitable worlds
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 25/09/2026
University of Copenhagen: Supernova or Black Hole? Ghost Particles’ “Flavor” May Determine the Fate of Dying Stars news.ku.dk/all_news/202...
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Supernova or black hole? Ghost particles’ “flavor” may determine the fate of dying stars
New research from the University of Copenhagen suggests that previously overlooked property of ghost particles may be a key part of the explanation for why some stars explode, while others collapse in...
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 25/09/2026
ETH Zurich: Mystery Surrounding the Formation of Asteroid Bennu Solved ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
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Mystery surrounding the formation of asteroid Bennu solved
New sample analyses by researchers at ETH Zurich point to a surprising origin for the asteroid Bennu: rather than forming far out in the Solar System, Bennu's parent body probably emerged in a special...
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 25/09/2026
University of Arizona: JWST Finds Early Galaxies Were Already Seeding the Universe with Heavy Elements news.arizona.edu/news/jwst-fi...
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JWST finds early galaxies were already seeding the universe with heavy elements
Contrary to conventional wisdom holding that early galaxies were composed of mostly hydrogen and helium, new observations suggest that galaxies were seeding the cosmos with heavy elements just 500 mil...
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 24/09/2026
University of California, San Diego: Is the Universe Twisted? A New Check on a Possible Twist in the Universe’s Oldest Light today.ucsd.edu/story/new-ch...
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Is the Universe Twisted? A New Check on a Possible Twist in the Universe’s Oldest Light
Even a small error in the orientation of a telescope’s polarization detectors can produce a false reading of cosmic birefringence. Researchers at UC San Diego have developed a method to test the relat...
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 24/09/2026
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy: Astronomers Produce the First Complete Picture of (Gas) Planet Formation in Action www.mpia.de/news/science...
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Astronomers produce the first complete picture of (gas) planet formation in action
We present new deep, very high angular resolution observations of the sub-mm continuum (19x13 mas) and 12CO (67x52 mas) emission from the disk surrounding the planet host WISPIT2. Our analysis reveals...
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 24/09/2026
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Hubble Seeks Lensed Supernova, Marks 200,000 Orbits science.nasa.gov/missions/hub...
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NASA's Hubble Seeks Lensed Supernova, Marks 200,000 Orbits - NASA Science
Hubble has traveled more than 5 billion miles around Earth over its 36-year lifetime, exceeding 1.7 million total observations. An observation completed on
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 24/09/2026
Yale University: Roaming Black Holes May Tell the Hidden History of Galaxies news.yale.edu/2026/09/23/r...
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Roaming black holes may tell the hidden history of galaxies
A new study from a Yale-led research team suggests that some of the most interesting black holes in the universe are the ones that have “wandered” away.
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 24/09/2026
ETH Zurich: The Far Side of the Moon Provides Clues to a Previous Magnetic Field ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
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The far side of the Moon provides clues to a previous magnetic field
The question to whether the Moon ever possessed an internal magnetic field is a matter of debate. Now, researchers at ETH Zurich have opted for a new method to show that a mechanism once existed on th...
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 23/09/2026
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Far-Infrared Telescope Selected as First in New Mission Class www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-se...
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NASA Selects Far-Infrared Telescope as First in New Mission Class | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 23/09/2026
NASA: Far-Infrared Telescope Selected as First in New Mission Class www.nasa.gov/news-release...
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NASA Selects Far-Infrared Telescope as First in New Mission Class - NASA
NASA announced Wednesday a mission to explore the history and evolution of the universe, PRIMA (PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics), is advancing to
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 23/09/2026
Brown University: Researchers Reveal Warm Heart of Mars, with Help from Gravity and Orbiting Spacecraft www.brown.edu/news/2026-09...
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Researchers reveal warm heart of Mars, with help from gravity and orbiting spacecraft
Using a technique developed by researchers at Brown, scientists have discovered a strange warm spot deep in the interior of the Red Planet.
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 23/09/2026
European Space Agency: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Hera’s Target Asteroids www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
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A hitchhiker’s guide to Hera’s target asteroids
Currently speeding through deep space at 12 km/s relative to Earth, ESA’s Hera spacecraft is due to reach its target Dimorphos asteroid this November. But if an astronaut were magically teleported ont...
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 23/09/2026
European Space Agency (ESA): First Switch-On for ESA–Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Ramses Asteroid Mission www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
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First switch on for ESA-JAXA Ramses asteroid mission
The European Space Agency’s and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Ramses planetary defence spacecraft has been turned on for the first time by its prime contractor – marking a major milestone in it...
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 23/09/2026
Northern Arizona University: Is a Nearby Advanced Alien Civilization out There Waiting to Pounce on Earth? Unlikely, Says New Study in.nau.edu/news/doughty...
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Is a nearby advanced alien civilization out there waiting to pounce on Earth? Unlikely, says new study
Science fiction suggests that life on other planets, if it exists, is likely far more advanced than life on Earth. A recent study suggests otherwise. This new study, led by Chris Doughty…
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 23/09/2026
University of Utah: Galaxies in the Early Universe Are Weird. These Stars May Explain Why. attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff...
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Galaxies in the early universe are weird. These stars may explain why. - @theU
New Hubble Space Telescope TEMPOS survey of 29 massive stars in extremely metal-poor galaxies finds unexpectedly weak stellar winds and delivers the largest-ever dataset of...
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 23/09/2026
Chinese Academy of Sciences: Einstein Probe and Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory Reveal a 42-Light-Year Directed Journey of Cosmic Rays english.cas.cn/newsroom/res...
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Einstein Probe and LHAASO Reveal a 42-light-year Directed Journey of Cosmic Rays
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 23/09/2026
University of Iowa: Jupiter Uses Surprisingly Complex System to Fend Off Particles from Sun now.uiowa.edu/news/2026/09...
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Jupiter uses surprisingly complex system to fend off particles from sun
University of Iowa researchers have made the most detailed observations yet of Jupiter’s bow shock, a barrier that helps deflect harmful particles from the sun. They found that Jupiter uses a more com...
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 23/09/2026
Planetary Science Institute: New Study Pinpoints When Early Earth May Have Become Ready for Life’s Chemistry www.psi.edu/blog/new-stu...
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New Study Pinpoints When Early Earth May Have Become Ready for Life’s Chemistry - Planetary Science Institute
Sept. 22, 2026, TUCSON, Ariz. — Conditions on the early Earth may have become stable enough to sustain the chemistry associated with the origins of life
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 22/09/2026
Carnegie Science: Guillermo Blanc Named Director of Las Campanas Observatory carnegiescience.edu/guillermo-bl...
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Guillermo Blanc named Director of Las Campanas Observatory
Galactic ecosystems expert Guillermo Blanc named Director of Carnegie Science's Las Campanas Observatory in Chile.
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 22/09/2026
South African Radio Astronomy Observatory: A Black Hole in the Milky Way Aims Its Jet at Us www.sarao.ac.za/news/a-black...
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A black hole in the Milky Way aims its jet at us - South African Radio Astronomy Observatory - NRF-SARAO
0:00 Astronomers have found the first convincing “microblazar” in our Galaxy — a star with a black hole orbiting around it, firing a beam of near-light-speed matter almost straight towards Earth. Its...
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 22/09/2026
Netherlands Research School for Astronomy (NOVA): First Microblazar Found Could Produce the Fastest Particles in the Milky Way www.astronomie.nl/nieuws/en/fi...
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First microblazar found could produce the fastest particles in the Milky Way
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 22/09/2026
University of Maryland: Scientists Simulate Cosmic Crashes to Test Whether Icy Moons Gain or Lose Their Ability to Sustain Life www.astro.umd.edu/news-events/...
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Scientists Simulate Cosmic Crashes to Test Whether Icy Moons Gain or Lose Their Ability to Sustain Life | University of Maryland: Department of Astronomy
A UMD-led study found that catastrophic collisions between icy moons barely disturb the hidden oceans beneath th
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 21/09/2026
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Discovery Reveals Complex Water Systems on Early Mars www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-di...
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NASA Discovery Reveals Complex Water Systems on Early Mars | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 21/09/2026
European Space Agency: Juice to Fly Past Earth for Third Gravity Assist www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
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Juice to fly past Earth for third gravity assist
The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) will return to Earth on 28 September, with flight controllers guiding the spacecraft close to our home planet to alter its speed and dire...
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 21/09/2026
Yale University: From the Start, the Solar System Chose Fire over Ice to Build Its First Bodies news.yale.edu/2026/09/18/s...
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From the start, the solar system chose fire over ice to build its first bodies
A Yale-led study provides the first geochemical evidence that aerodynamic sorting of material for the solar system’s first bodies began much earlier than previously known.
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 21/09/2026
University of Tokyo: Time’s Running Out to Catch Giant Planet’s Strange Orbit www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/pre...
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 21/09/2026
University of Alberta: Closing the Space Gap www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/202...
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Closing the space gap
A new way to accurately measure the distance between quasar pairs — the blazing, black-hole-powered centres of distant galaxies that appear side by side in space — is showing promise through Universit...
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 21/09/2026
University of Geneva: A “Rebellious” Exoplanet Orbits in the Opposite Direction of Its Star www.unige.ch/medias/en/20...
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A “rebellious” exoplanet orbits in the opposite direction of its star - Medias - UNIGE
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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 18/09/2026
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center: NASA-JAXA XRISM Mission Sees Pulsar Gathering Companion’s "Wind" science.nasa.gov/missions/xri...
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NASA-JAXA XRISM Mission Sees Pulsar Gathering Companion’s ‘Wind’ - NASA Science
Using data from the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) observatory, astronomers have directly observed a giant star’s outflow, called a
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