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Researchers braved the harshest conditions on Earth to capture a view of the universe usually only possible from space. To understand how stars form, we need to look at Carbon. But Carbon emits light in Submillimeter/Terahertz wavelengths.

JWST has spotted a massive star exploding when the universe was only 1 billion years old. It is a messenger from the cosmic dawn. The Challenge: At redshift z=5.133, SN Eos is incredibly faint. Even JWST couldn't see it directly.

New lab experiments prove an explosive theory: Asteroids that fly too close to the Sun don't just melt—they detonate. The Mystery: Why are there almost no dark asteroids near the Sun? The Old Theory: Gravity tears them apart, or they slowly evaporate over millions of years.

On super-Earths, deep oceans of molten rock might be doing the impossible: generating magnetic force fields to protect life. Earth: Our magnetic field comes from the Outer Core, a churning layer of liquid iron. Super-Earths: These massive worlds crush their cores into solids. Without liquid iron, scientists thought they might lack magnetic fields.

China's FAST telescope—the largest on Earth—has scoured the archives to find 19 pulsars missed by previous searches, including rare "transient" ghosts. Pulsars (spinning neutron stars) are lighthouses of the cosmos. Most are found near the Galactic Plane, where stars are dense.

In space, fire doesn't rise. It forms a ghostly sphere that is harder to detect and harder to kill. New research aims to tame flames for the journey to Mars. On Earth, hot air is lighter than cold air. It rises, pulling fresh oxygen in from below. This convection gives fire its familiar teardrop shape and yellow color (soot).

Jupiter's outermost moon is a battered, icy archive of the early solar system. New thermal imaging is finally peeling back its scarred surface to reveal what lies beneath. Using the ALMA telescope, researchers analyzed thermal data to peer into the top few centimeters of Callisto's surface (regolith).

In the weightlessness of the Space Station, the war between viruses and bacteria changes rules. The result? New biological weapons against superbugs on Earth. On Earth, gravity and convection currents help viruses (phages) bump into bacteria. In space, those forces vanish.

How does a white dwarf explode? New observations of SN 2024gy provide smoking gun evidence for a specific, violent chain reaction. Type Ia supernovae are standard candles for measuring the universe, but we still debate how they ignite.

New models reveal that Jupiter's atmosphere moves much slower than we thought, and hides a massive reservoir of oxygen that tells the story of its birth. Jupiter's clouds are iconic, but what happens deep below them? Old Assumption: Models assumed the deep atmosphere mixed rapidly. Molecules would zip between layers in hours.

Hidden inside grains of sand are "fingerprints" left by exploding stars. Scientists are using them to rewrite the history of the Australian continent. Earth is constantly bombarded by Cosmic Rays—high-energy particles from supernovae. When these rays hit the surface, they strike minerals like Zircon. The impact splits atoms inside the crystal, creating a rare isotope: Cosmogenic Krypton.

From the return of humans to the Moon to telescopes that see 100x more sky, 2026 marks the dawn of a new era in exploration. Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: NASA's next flagship. While Hubble looks at the universe through a keyhole, Roman looks through a panoramic window.