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Hubble Confirms First Recorded Comet Spin Reversal

Uneven jets from sun‑heated ice on comet 41P likely torqued its 1‑kilometer nucleus into a new rotation.

Second Infant Planet Confirmed Forming Around Nearby Star WISPIT 2

Hubble Maps 25 Years of Expansion in the Crab Nebula

Astronomers Publish Evidence of Planetary Collision Around Sun-Like Star

Nature Study Links Superluminous Supernova to Newborn Magnetar Through Relativistic 'Chirp'

Magnetar ‘Chirp’ Identified in Superluminous Supernova as Short GRB Localized to Tidal-Stream Dwarf

Webb Finds Dust-Obscured Red Supergiant Behind 2025 Supernova, a First for the Telescope

New Spectra Challenge ‘Yellow Hypergiant’ Claim for Colossal LMC Star WOH G64

Distant Quasar Defies Models With 13× Eddington Growth and Powerful Jets

JWST Spots Most Distant ‘Jellyfish’ Galaxy Candidate at Redshift 1.156

Astronomers Find Rare ‘Inside-Out’ Planetary System With Rocky Outer World

Science Study Details Andromeda Star’s Disappearance, Pointing to Black Hole Birth

New Analysis Finds Comet 41P Likely Flipped Its Spin After Record 2017 Slowdown

Study Ties ASASSN-24fw’s 200-Day Fade to Ringed Brown Dwarf or Super-Jupiter

Dark Matter Core Model Challenges Black Hole at Milky Way’s Center

Star-Shredding Black Hole’s Radio Jet Still Surging, With Peak Predicted Around 2027

Earth-Size, Yearlong-Orbit Exoplanet Candidate Found 146 Light-Years Away

2026 Astronomical Calendar Set: Snow Moon Feb. 1, Annular Eclipse Feb. 17, Total Solar Eclipse Aug. 12

Early-Universe Quasar Defies Models With 13 Times the Eddington Limit, Bright X-Rays and a Radio Jet

Giant Metal-Bearing Cloud Tied to Hidden Companion Explains Months-Long Dimming of Sun-Like Star