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Lucy found an asteroid moon made of two touching pieces
A five-year mission update revisits the small bodies already photographed before the Trojan encounters.
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Uranus and Neptune may have formed from different ingredients
Atmospheric chemistry models point to different oxygen supplies beneath the two planets’ visible clouds.
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Euclid finds its first previously unknown comet
Software spotted a moving streak in images from a telescope built to map distant galaxies.
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Google reports 40-fold error cut in Willow magic states
The result concerns preparation of a specific quantum resource, not the error rate of every operation on the processor.
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OIST moves a levitated diamond using electron spin
The experiment links quantum spin to measurable mechanical motion, without putting the whole object in two places at once.
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Northwestern traps one antimatter particle for months
A controlled positron opens a route to sharper comparisons between matter and antimatter, rather than a new result on their differences.
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NASA prepares Moon rovers to scout before astronauts arrive
The agency describes final VIPER testing and remote mapping plans for vehicles intended for the lunar south pole.
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Webb reads the dusty aftermath of giant planetary collisions
Silica-rich debris points to more energetic impacts, rather than a telescope directly filming planets collide.
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Webb exposes stellar jets inside the clouds of NGC 7129
Infrared images reveal forming stars and shocked gas in a region about 3,300 light-years away.
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Oxford links different atoms in a longer-lived quantum network
The experiment shared states across two locations and preserved entanglement for more than 10 seconds.
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ALMA finds fully heavy methanol around a forming star
The COMPASS survey examines the chemistry around 11 young stars similar in mass to the Sun.
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Chandra links a cosmic treble clef to colliding galaxy clusters
X-ray observations reveal hot gas around a radio source about 1.55 billion light-years away.