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Oct 06, 2026
New spectroscopy of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS shows its gas is escaping at only about half the speed of typical solar system comets, alongside unusually strong iron and nickel signatures — a puzzle for astronomers studying this rare visitor from another star system.
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Sep 24, 2026
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has switched on its two main instruments en route to its observing post a million miles from Earth, with first science images expected in early 2027.
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Sep 18, 2026
Webb's MIRI instrument has directly read the surface chemistry of exoplanet LHS 3844 b, a scorched super-Earth 50 light-years away — and found a barren basalt world with no atmosphere.
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NASA's return to the Moon aims to establish sustainable lunar presence and prepare for the first crewed mission to Mars.
Peering 13.5 billion years into the past, JWST reveals the earliest galaxies and analyzes atmospheres of distant worlds.
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