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Astronomy & Astrophysics
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...
Astronomy & Astrophysics Hidden Company: Rubin Doubles the Trailing Neptune Trojans
Neptune does not travel alone. Two clouds of icy bodies share its orbit, one running 60 degrees ahead of the...
Astronomy & Astrophysics Feline Shadow: Hubble and Webb Study the Cat’s Head Nebula
Star-forming clouds do not get to grow old quietly. In the Carina Nebula, about 7,500 light-years away, the most massive...
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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...
Quick Reads Every Watt Counts: Voyager 1 Power Swap Buys Time Before One Light-Day
A spacecraft built in the 1970s does not get spare parts. When Voyager 1 runs short of electricity, its engineers...
Our Planet & Beyond Moving Spotlight: TRACERS Shows How Magnetic Reconnection Shifts
On the sunward edge of Earth's magnetic field, the solar wind carries its own magnetic field into ours. Where the...
Astronomy & Astrophysics Hidden Company: Rubin Doubles the Trailing Neptune Trojans
Neptune does not travel alone. Two clouds of icy bodies share its orbit, one running 60 degrees ahead of the...