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Parker Solar Probe Completes Record-Close 27th Pass of the Sun

The spacecraft sampled the solar corona to improve forecasting of storms that threaten critical technology.

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ALMA Maps Show Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Exceptionally Methanol-Rich

JUICE Releases Best-Yet Image of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS as Data Flow Begins

Chandra Maps Hot Astrosphere Around Young Sun-Like Star HD 61005

New Simulations Show Gravitational Collapse Can Build Kuiper Belt 'Snowman' Worlds

Impact Alert Withdrawn as Suspected Asteroid Reidentified as Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

Ultrafast X‑Ray Lasers Pinpoint Hybrid Structure in Superionic Water

Scientists Forecast Elevated Geomagnetic Conditions This Week, No Strong Storms Expected

Rubin Observatory Finds Fastest-Spinning Large Asteroid in First Commissioning Data

MAVEN Still Silent as Data Point to Unexpected Spin and Possible Orbit Change

Parker Solar Probe Reveals CME Material Falling Back to the Sun as Craft Repeats Record-Close Pass

New Models Suggest Uranus and Neptune May Be Far Rockier Than Long Assumed

Prospector’s ‘Gold Nugget’ Identified as 4.6-Billion-Year-Old Meteorite in Victoria

Study Traces Moon-Maker Theia to the Inner Solar System

Science Study Points to Inner‑Solar‑System Origin for Moon‑Forming Impactor Theia

Kamchatka Logs Nine Aftershocks Up to M5.8 as Pacific Rim Sees Fresh Quakes

Extreme Geomagnetic Storm Forecast Wavers After CMEs Do Not Reach Earth on Friday

Solar Lab Warns of Low-Level Geomagnetic Storms Today From Coronal Hole Stream

Europa Clipper May Skim 3I/ATLAS’s Ion Tail as Interstellar Comet Nears Perihelion

Lab Experiments Back ‘Earth Wind’ as Driver of Lunar Rust