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A doctoral student opened 27-year-old Hubble data, matched 100 mystery fingerprints to niobium — an element never seen in any white dwarf — and found the best evidence yet for a Jupiter-size world born from its dead star's ashes.
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A gas giant orbiting the white dwarf HS 0209+0832, 250 light-years away in Cetus, appears to be the first planet ever found that formed AFTER its star died — betrayed by niobium, a rare metal 1,000 times richer than in our Sun.
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A millisecond flash from 3 billion years after the Big Bang just set the record as the farthest fast radio burst ever traced — and the tiny young galaxy Webb found at its source points the finger at a magnetar.
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The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics went to Francis Halzen and IceCube — a cubic kilometre of Antarctic ice, buried 2.5 kilometres under the South Pole, that turns flashes of blue light into a brand-new map of the universe.
The Draconid meteor shower peaks tonight, October 8–9, 2026 — and unlike most showers, its radiant is highest at nightfall, so you watch it after dinner, not at 3am. Dark moonless skies, a dragon constellation, and a comet that once produced thousand-meteor storms.
Astronomers have confirmed Elias 2-24 b, the youngest planet ever found — a Jupiter-sized world less than one million years old, still gathering gas and dust from its star's disk 450 light-years away. The discovery came from decade-old Keck telescope data and hints that planets can form far faster than we thought.
NASA's Perseverance rover found the opposite of what it expected at Jezero Crater — volcanic stone instead of lake sediment — and that surprise revealed at least three separate ancient water systems on Mars: groundwater, a lake, and hot mineral fluids.
In spring 2024, something the size of a small building struck the Moon with no witness — until NASA's patient orbiter revealed McGetchin, a fresh 222-metre crater that is the largest ever identified in the solar system, ringed by a mysterious cold zone about 6 kilometres wide.
For the first time, astronomers are watching a giant polygon form on a planet in real time — a ten-sided wave of wind rippling around Saturn's south pole, spotted first by backyard astronomers and confirmed by the Hubble Space Telescope.
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched August 30, 2026 and is now cruising a million miles to L2 — carrying a 300.8-megapixel camera that will map the sky a thousand times faster than Hubble and beam home 1.4 terabytes of data every day.
A fresh set of Hubble observations has revealed something wonderfully unexpected on Saturn: a giant 10-sided wave circling the south pole. The new pattern is not just beautiful—it may help scientists understand how giant-planet weather grows, shifts, and settles over time.
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has begun its journey with a fresh kind of promise: not just deeper views, but wider ones. From a 2.4-metre mirror to a 300-megapixel infrared eye, Roman is built to map billions of galaxies and reveal thousands of new worlds.
A new set of lunar images shows how much detail modern spacecraft can pull from a very small patch of the Moon. With a 60-foot crater, six days of patience, and remarkably precise timing, NASA turned one bright new mark into a vivid lesson in how we read another world.
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