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Sun’s Polar Regions: Key to Magnetic Cycle and Wind
Why the Sun’s Poles MatterThe polar regions of the Sun remain among the least observed yet most influential areas in sol...
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The Shrinking Asteroid Belt: Slow Loss and Earth Risks
Asteroid belt basics and Jupiter's roleThe asteroid belt — a vast, scattered ring of rocky bodies orbiting between Mars ...
Ancient North Sea Crater Confirmed as Asteroid Impact
A new multidisciplinary study has resolved a long-standing debate about the Silverpit structure in the southern North Se...
Earth Was Born Dry: Theia's Collision Made It Blue
Early Earth was chemically set — but dryNew research from the Institute of Geological Sciences at the University of Bern...
New FROSTI Optics Could Transform Gravitational Astronomy
Breakthrough adaptive optics for gravitational-wave detectorsThe University of California, Riverside has demonstrated a ...
Billion-Year Magnetic Mystery: How Earth Kept Its Shield
Ancient geodynamo: the problem and the new solutionThe Earth’s magnetic field is a vital shield that protects the atmosp...
First-Ever Space Rescue: NASA's Swift Telescope Saved
A timed intervention to save a veteran observatoryIt is rare for an unprepared government satellite to receive a last-mi...
Supermassive Black Holes Inside Giant Gas Envelopes?
New explanation for mysterious early-Universe red dotsSome of the faint red sources discovered by JWST at cosmic dawn ma...
Clearest Black Hole Ringing Confirms Einstein and Hawking
New gravitational-wave detection sharpens our view of black holesNew, high-fidelity measurements of a black hole merger ...
Early-Universe Giant Black Hole Accreting 2.4x Eddington
A rapidly growing black hole in the first billion yearsA team of astronomers has identified a supermassive black hole in...
Earth's Escaping Oxygen Is Making the Moon Rust Now
New evidence links Earth's oxygen to rust on the MoonRecent laboratory work suggests that the surprising presence of hem...
Moon Might Hold Thousands of Platinum-Group Metal Craters
The search for high-value minerals in space has often focused on asteroids, but new research suggests the Moon itself ma...
AI Predicts Spaceflight Vision Damage Before Launch
Spaceflight vision risks and a new predictive toolSpace travel poses many physiological challenges, and the eyes are par...
Nuclear Option and Deflection Plans for 2032 Moon Impact
The 2024 YR4 Moon Threat and Why It MattersAsteroid 2024 YR4 was initially flagged after discovery because early orbital...
Ancient Brown Dwarf Reveals Silane in Giant-Planet Chemistry
How a cosmic "accident" exposed hidden silicon chemistryA faint, ancient brown dwarf nicknamed "The Accident" has delive...
Revealing the Breakup of Asteroid 2023 CX1 over France
How a small asteroid told its storyOn 13 February 2023, a small asteroid designated 2023 CX1 briefly lit the afternoon s...
Most Earthquake Energy Converts to Heat, Lab Quakes Reveal
Heat outweighs shaking in small-scale quakesLaboratory experiments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology show tha...
NASA Confirms Artemis II Moon Orbit Mission Targeted 2026
Artemis II set to orbit the Moon in 2026NASA has confirmed that its next crewed mission to orbit the Moon, Artemis II, i...
Grazing Twin Collision Explains Mercury’s Massive Core
Mercury’s oversized core: a long-standing puzzleMercury presents one of the Solar System’s most persistent enigmas: a co...
Why NASA Will Deorbit the ISS in 2030 — What's Next
End of an era: the plan to deorbit the ISSFor a continuous quarter century, humans have lived and worked aboard the Inte...