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Using data from the Japan-led XRISM observatory, astronomers have directly observed a giant stars stellar wind captured by its compact companion (triggering X-ray flares) for the first time.

Written by Lucy Thompson, Senior Research Scientist, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning date: Friday, Sept. 25, 2026 Before we landed, the area of Gale crater that we planned to explore was divided up int...

I want to be able to look at a rocket launch and say, I touched a piece of this. Thats how Richard Spolzino describes the thing hes chasing. Not a title, not a specific mission, not even NASA itself, just the ability to ...

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the Department of Physics and the Hong Kong Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (HKIAA) at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), has discovered a previou...

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus hides a global ocean beneath its frozen surface. From fractures near its south pole, material from this ocean is ejected into space as a plume of water vapor and ice particles. These parti...

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