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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Astronomy & Astrophysics Meeting Point: SETI Listens for Aliens at the Anti-Solar Point
The hardest part of listening for alien radio signals may not be where to point the telescope. It may be...
Astronomy & Astrophysics Digital Twin: A Telescope Model Reveals Hidden Exoplanets in Webb Data
A planet beside its star is a faint ember next to a furnace. Young giant planets, the easiest kind to...
Astronomy & Astrophysics Shifting Poles: Ice Giant Magnetic Fields May Have Moved Since Voyager
Every magnetic map of Uranus and Neptune in the textbooks comes from a single pass. Voyager 2 flew by each...
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Night Sky Highlights Lion’s Share: Meteors and Two Planets Fill the November Night Sky
The best of the November night sky arrives before breakfast. Between now and the third week of the month, two...
Our Planet & Beyond Cold Storage: Small Craters Track Mars Polar Ice Year by Year
Mars keeps a climate archive at its north pole, written in stacked layers of ice and dust. Reading it means...
Astronomy & Astrophysics Close Quarters: Webb Spots Dual Black Holes Feeding in the Young Universe
When galaxies collide, their central black holes should eventually meet too. Close pairs have been confirmed nearby, but in the...
Quick Reads Second Wind: NASA Seeks Ideas for Commercial Hubble Servicing
A telescope with no engine has a lifespan set by the air around it. Even hundreds of kilometres up, faint...
Quick Reads Ultraviolet Return: NASA Confirms the UVEX Space Telescope for 2031
For more than a decade, astronomers have had no dedicated wide-field eye on the ultraviolet sky. Earth's atmosphere blocks this...
Astronomy & Astrophysics Saving Grace: How Giant Impacts Help Young Planets Keep Their Atmospheres
A young planet struck by another growing world might be expected to come away bruised and bare. The textbook picture...