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20 August 2026

New research indicates most of the water that once flowed and pooled on Mars may still be there, locked in minerals making up the planet’s crust.

Engineers resolved a software glitch aboard the Hubble Space Telescope but ran into trouble with a motor used to open and close its aperture door.

New research indicates the most energetic cosmic rays may be generated in young star clusters, not supernovae as previously theorised.

Red hypergiant star mimics Betelgeuse with dust-related dimming, but on a vastly larger scale.

Astronomers find more evidence for an obscured pulsar at the heart of the famed SN 1987A supernova remnant.

NASA”s Juno mission to Jupiter has been extended for multiple flybys of three Galilean moons and the giant planet’s faint rings.

The Perseverance Mars rover’s thrilling descent to the floor of Jezero Crater was captured in stunning first-of-its-kind video.

NASA’s Perseverance rover lands on Mars, the first step in a joint U.S.-European mission to bring samples back to Earth.

New research questions the need for a “Planet 9” to explain clustered outer solar system orbits; proponents beg to differ.

Astronomers confirm a dwarf planet nicknamed ‘Farfarout’ is, in fact, the most distant solar system body yet detected.