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Primordial black hole’s final burst may solve neutrino mystery

The last gasp of a primordial black hole may be the source of the highest-energy “ghost particle” detected to date, a new MIT study proposes.

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Brewery makes new beer from yeast launched in rocket

A Cincinnati brewing company will unveil a new beer this fall that is out of this world.

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How an astronaut calculates risk

When Anil Menon launches into space aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket next June, he’ll bring two decades of experience as a physician, engineer, military pilot, and NASA flight surgeon—and a highly personal understanding of risk.

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Hubble sees white dwarf eating piece of Pluto-like object

In our nearby stellar neighborhood, a burned-out star is snacking on a fragment of a Pluto-like object. With its unique ultraviolet capability, only NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope could identify that this meal is taking place.

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Northrop Grumman cargo ship reaches the International Space Station a day late after engine issue

A supply ship arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday after a day’s delay due to a premature engine shutdown.

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How will SpaceX’s massive Starship affect you when it comes to Florida?

Central Florida residents face flight delays, beach closures, and sonic booms in the middle of the night if SpaceX has its way, with plans to launch its powerful Starship and Super Heavy rocket from the Space Coast as many as 120 times a year.

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Simulations of exoplanet formation may help inform search for extraterrestrial life

Florida Tech astrophysicist Howard Chen is offering new insights to help aid NASA’s search for life beyond Earth. His latest theoretical work investigates the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system, one of the most widely studied exoplanetary systems in the galaxy. It has captured scientists’ attention for its potential to host water, and thus possibly life, on its […]

Supermassive black holes observed in the most distant ‘dying’ massive galaxies, revealing co-evolution

Using the wide-field survey capabilities of the Subaru Telescope, astronomers discovered active supermassive black holes, or quasars, in the distant universe and then studied them with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This work has revealed how galaxies and their central black holes grew 12.9 billion years ago.

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Astronomers detect a new black-widow pulsar

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new “spider” millisecond pulsar, which received designation PSR J1544−2555. The finding was presented in a research paper published September 11 on the arXivpre-print server.

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New Mars research reveals multiple episodes of habitability in Jezero Crater

New research using NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered strong evidence that Mars’ Jezero Crater experienced multiple episodes of fluid activity—each with conditions that could have supported life.

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New software tool aims to democratize access to space camera development

A powerful software tool capable of accurately modeling how cameras capture light could help democratize the development of new imaging systems for use in space.

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Can Hayabusa2 touch down? Study reveals space mission’s target asteroid is tinier and faster than thought

Astronomers have used observatories around the world, including the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), to study the asteroid 1998 KY26, revealing it to be almost three times smaller and spinning much faster than previously thought.

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Sub-Neptune exoplanets unlikely to be water-rich ocean worlds, researchers say

An exoplanet orbiting a dwarf star 124 light-years from Earth made headlines around the world in April 2025. Researchers at the University of Cambridge reported that planet K2-18b could be a marine world with a deep, global ocean teeming with life.

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NASA’s tally of planets outside our solar system reaches 6,000

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, so no single planet is considered the 6,000th entry. The number is monitored by NASA’s Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI), based at Caltech’s IPAC in […]

Some small asteroids can abruptly explode

Some asteroids are more dangerous than others, according to a report published in Nature Astronomy by an international team of researchers, led by astrophysicist Auriane Egal of the Montreal Planetarium in Canada. The team had presented their findings of an investigation into the impact of small asteroid 2023 CX1 over France in February 2023. This […]