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Gemini North Reveals Crystal Ball Nebula Shaped by a Nine‑Year Binary

The GMOS image links a long‑period binary’s winds to the nebula’s lumpy shells while recording light that left the object about 1,500 years ago.

JWST Detects Methane From Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

Scientists Outline 'Agnostic Biosignature' to Find Life Through Planetary Patterns

JWST Charts Uranus’s Upper Atmosphere in 3D, Exposing Auroral Bands and a Cooling Trend

JPL Study Maps Propulsion Paths to Reach the Solar Gravitational Lens in Decades

Study Finds Planetary Oxygen at Birth Controls Life-Critical Phosphorus and Nitrogen

NASA Confirms Pandora Exoplanet Observatory Is Healthy After Launch, Begins Commissioning

Mars’ Gravity Helps Drive Earth’s Ice‑Age Cycles, New Simulations Show

XFEL Studies Confirm Mixed Crystal Structures in Superionic Water

First All-Sky Census of Nearby K Dwarfs Flags 529 Prime Targets for Earth-Like Planet Searches

Astronomers Make First Direct Mass Measurement of a Rogue Planet

Early Earth’s Atmosphere May Have Forged Sulfur Biomolecules Needed for Life

Euclid Reveals Orion's Hidden Stars in New Infrared Image From Guiding Test

Astronomers Map Orbit and Mass of Stormy Brown Dwarf Around Nearby Red Dwarf

JWST Finds Phosphine on Ancient Brown Dwarf, Matching Model Predictions

Webb Detects First Silane in Ancient Brown Dwarf, Clarifying Jupiter–Saturn Silicon Mystery

Cosmic Rays Can Sustain Subsurface Life in New Radiolytic Habitable Zone