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Astronomers Make First Direct Mass Measurement of a Rogue Planet

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Hubble Captures Record-Breaking Chaotic Planet-Forming Disk 1,000 Light-Years Away

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Comet Lemmon Makes Closest Approach Oct. 20–21 With Prime Viewing Under New Moon

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First Direct Image of a Protoplanet in a Disk Gap Confirms Formation Theory

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New Solar Model Shows Sun Has 55% More Silver

VLT Confirms Ancient, Non‑Solar Chemistry in Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

TESS Detects First Planet by Gravitational Microlensing

New Models Suggest Earth Could Avoid Being Engulfed by the Sun

Antarctic Ice Cores Reveal Supernova Dust Tracing 80,000 Years of the Solar System’s Route

TESS Survey Identifies 27 Candidate Two‑Star Planets

Second Infant Planet Confirmed Forming Around Nearby Star WISPIT 2

Astronomers Tie Distant Star’s Chaotic Fading to Evidence of a Planetary Collision

Caltech Astrophysicist Carl Grillmair Killed as 29-Year-Old Is Charged With Murder

CHEOPS Reveals 'Inside-Out' Four-Planet System Around Red Dwarf LHS 1903

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ALMA Survey Publishes Sharpest Images of 24 Exo‑Kuiper Belts

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

Astronomers Make First Direct Mass Measurement of a Rogue Planet

Hubble Captures Record-Breaking Chaotic Planet-Forming Disk 1,000 Light-Years Away

Hubble Spots Second Debris Cloud at Fomalhaut, Confirming Repeated Planetesimal Collisions

Hubble Spots Second Transient Light Near Fomalhaut as First Fades From View

Early JWST Campaign Finds Stellar Noise Hindering TRAPPIST-1e Atmosphere Test

Comet Lemmon Makes Closest Approach Oct. 20–21 With Prime Viewing Under New Moon

Last Quarter Moon Draws Close to Jupiter Overnight in Easy Sky Show

First Direct Image of a Protoplanet in a Disk Gap Confirms Formation Theory

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