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Hubble’s Chance Shots Catch Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) Shattering Days After Sun Flyby

Newly released images from November 8–10, 2025 underpin an Icarus study that lets scientists reconstruct a rare early-stage comet breakup.

Construction Begins on MOTHRA, a 1,140-Lens Telescope in Chile to Map the Cosmic Web

Anduril to Acquire ExoAnalytic, Adding Global Space-Tracking Network to Missile-Defense Portfolio

Magnetar ‘Chirp’ Identified in Superluminous Supernova as Short GRB Localized to Tidal-Stream Dwarf

Webb Observations Eliminate 2032 Lunar-Impact Risk From Asteroid 2024 YR4

Hubble–Euclid Team-Up Unveils Multiscale Portrait of the Cat’s Eye Nebula

Webb Finds Dust-Obscured Red Supergiant Behind 2025 Supernova, a First for the Telescope

Hubble Unveils Clearest Image Yet of the Egg Nebula

JWST Confirms MoM‑z14, Most Distant Galaxy Yet, at Redshift 14.44

AI Trawl of Hubble Archive Uncovers 1,300 Cosmic Anomalies, Including 800+ Never Documented

Webb Delivers Sharpest Contiguous Map of Dark Matter’s Cosmic Web

Webb Delivers Sharpest Dark-Matter Map, Revealing the Universe’s Hidden Scaffold

JWST Produces Most Detailed Dark-Matter Map to Date

Webb NIRCam Reveals Helix Nebula’s Cometary Knots in Unprecedented Detail

JWST Sees Protostar Forge Crystals in Outbursts, Then Hurl Them to Comet-Building Zones

JWST’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Are Young Black Holes Shrouded in Gas, Nature Study Finds

JWST’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Linked to Young, Cocooned Supermassive Black Holes

White Dwarf Without Disk Has Driven Thousand-Year Bow Shock, VLT Study Finds

Hubble Confirms Starless ‘Cloud-9’ as Dark-Matter RELHIC as Lensing Reveals a Distant Dark Disruptor

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