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Hubble Confirms a Ten‑Sided Decagon at Saturn’s South Pole

The feature is a vertically extended wave trapped in a polar jet that could reveal how large atmospheric patterns form on gas giants.

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NASA Selects Blue Origin to Build and Operate Mars Telecommunications Network

BepiColombo Separates Transfer Module and Begins Final Approach to Mercury

BepiColombo Begins Mercury Arrival After Transfer Module Separation

Mars's Southern Mantle Is Hundreds of Degrees Hotter Than the North, Study Finds

JWST Finds Magnetic Jets Yield to Photoevaporative Winds, Closing the Window for Gas-Planet Formation

Two Decades After Its Demotion, Pluto Is Still a Dwarf Planet

White House Orders U.S. Build Capacity for 1,000+ Launches a Year by 2030

Study Maps Lunar South Pole Pockets Where Earth Microbes Could Survive

Single Asteroid Strike Could Explain Deimos’s Southern Basin and Global Dust

NASA Backs Ion‑Powered SPARK Aerobots to Probe Titan’s Caves

Venera 13’s 127-Minute Venus Surface Record Still Holds After New Review

Voyager CEO Says Moon Base and Commuting Could Arrive by Early 2030s

Simulations Suggest Rocky-Planet Building Blocks Formed 100 Million Years After the Big Bang

Mars Shergottite NWA 13441 Dated to 1.27 Billion Years, Filling Long Gap in Record

Six Planets Set to Parade Across the Pre-Dawn Eastern Sky

Study: Liquid Nitrogen Has Recently Reached Pluto’s Surface

Gas Streamer Likely Tilted GW Orionis' Triple-Star Disk

Perseverance Captures Earth Vanishing Behind Mars Moon Phobos

Curiosity Images Vast Honeycomb Polygon Field on Mars