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New Theory Quantifies Why CO2 Cools the Stratosphere and Warms the Surface

The study offers a compact, tested explanation rooted in CO2’s infrared wavelengths.

TESS Survey Identifies 27 Candidate Two‑Star Planets

Webb Maps the Surface of a Nearby Super-Earth, Revealing a Dark Basaltic World

JWST Reveals Dark, Airless Surface on Rocky Exoplanet LHS 3844 b

Texas A&M Demonstrates Laser-Driven ‘Metajets’ With 3D Control

JWST Finds Metal-Poor Atmosphere on Giant Planet Around a Small Red Dwarf

Hubble Spots First Known Comet Spin Reversal

NASA Halts Lunar Gateway, Launches Seven‑Year Push for a Moon Base and Nuclear‑Electric Mars Demo

Cornell Catalog Identifies 45 Rocky Exoplanets in Habitable Zones

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

NASA’s DART Test Measurably Shifted an Asteroid System’s Solar Orbit, Studies Find

Study Ties ASASSN-24fw’s 200-Day Fade to Ringed Brown Dwarf or Super-Jupiter

Kepler Archive Reveals Earth-Size Exoplanet Candidate Near Habitable Zone

Earth-Sized Exoplanet Candidate Found 146 Light-Years Away Around a K-Dwarf

Kepler Data Reveal Earth-Size Planet Candidate HD 137010 b Near Star’s Habitable Edge

Giant Metal-Bearing Cloud Tied to Hidden Companion Explains Months-Long Dimming of Sun-Like Star

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

SpaceX Debuts 'Twilight' Rideshare, Deploys About 40 Smallsats to Dusk–Dawn Orbit

Caltech Names Astrophysicist Ray Jayawardhana Its Next President

Saturn-Mass Rogue Planet Gets First Direct Mass and Distance Measurement