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August 2, 2027 Total Solar Eclipse Will Be the Longest of the Century

Travelers and researchers are eyeing Luxor for clear skies despite extreme August heat.

Study Confirms DART Nudged Asteroid Pair’s Orbit Around the Sun

Study Confirms DART Nudged Asteroid Pair’s Solar Orbit in First Measured Human-Made Deflection

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

Friendship 7 at 64: John Glenn’s Orbit, Scare and Legacy

Juno Radio Occultations Sharpen Jupiter’s Dimensions, Reveal Greater Oblateness

New Analyses Challenge Purely Nonbiological Origins for Mars Organics

First Subsurface Lava Tube Detected on Venus in Reprocessed Magellan Radar

Juno Data Refine Jupiter’s Size, Finding the Giant Slightly Smaller and More Flattened

New Jupiter Model Finds More Oxygen and Far Slower Atmospheric Mixing

NASA Puts ‘Athena’ Supercomputer Into Full Service to Power Upcoming Missions

Juno Sounding Finds Europa’s Outer Ice Layer Averages 18 Miles Thick in Surveyed Region

Machine Learning Maps 400 Bright Slope Streaks on Mercury, Hinting at Ongoing Volatile Loss

SPHEREx Finds Interstellar 3I/ATLAS Has Become a Fully Active Comet After Perihelion

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

SpaceX Targets Starlink 6-98 Launch From Cape Canaveral Today as Weather Remains Uncertain

Hubble Confirms First Starless Dark-Matter Cloud, ‘Cloud-9,’ a Predicted RELHIC

2026 Sky Guide: Total Eclipse Over Iceland and Spain as NASA Targets Early-Year Artemis II

Titan May Lack a Global Ocean, Cassini Reanalysis Points to a Slushy Interior With Isolated Water Pockets

XRISM Pinpoints Chlorine and Potassium Surplus in Cassiopeia A, Challenging Supernova Models