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What makes the November 2025 full moon special The full beaver moon for November 2025 marks the second full Moon of the autumn season in…

Introduction: A Halloween-tinged mystery in the cosmos As the James Webb Space Telescope continues to push the boundaries of infrared astronomy, it has turned its…

Stunning Mars Panorama: What Perseverance Showed the World NASA’s Perseverance rover has once again pushed the boundaries of robotic exploration, delivering what officials are calling…

Water on an Interstellar Visitor: A Surprising Find In a watershed moment for planetary science, researchers confirmed that the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is releasing water…

Overview: What NASA’s JPL Has Reported NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which maintains the primary catalog of near-Earth objects (NEOs), has reported a close series…

Rethinking the Red Sky Paradox The latest work from astrophysicist David Kipping challenges a long-running assumption about where advanced civilizations might arise. In a field…

Europe’s Deep-Space Gateway Expands in Australia The European Space Agency (ESA) has officially opened its second deep space antenna at New Norcia, a tiny monastic…

Phosphine and the hunt for alien life Phosphine, a molecule composed of one phosphorus atom and three hydrogen atoms, has long been touted as a…

Disclaimer: This article describes a fictional scenario created to explore ideas about planet formation and exoplanet science. Overview: A Planet That Grows Without a Sun…

Enceladus and the Search for Life’s Building Blocks Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus has long fascinated scientists with the possibility that it hosts a subsurface ocean.…
