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NASA’s Pandora telescope will study stars in detail to learn about the exoplanets orbiting them

On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried NASA’s new exoplanet telescope, Pandora, into orbit.

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Former CEO of Google spearheads 4 next-gen telescopes — 3 on Earth and 1 in space

"We're going to do it in three years, and we're going to do it for a ridiculously low price."

Space

MAVEN Captures Shocking Deuterium Ratios: What Comet 3I/ATLAS Means For Earth

NASA's MRO, MAVEN, and Perseverance capture rare views of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS.

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$20 million NASA mission to visit 'God of Chaos' asteroid saved from budget cuts in last-minute decision

NASA's OSIRIS-APEX mission, which was one of 19 designated to be canceled by the Trump administration, has been saved from the chopping block in a last-minute decision. There will be a significant change to its structure, however.

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MIT president says she 'cannot support' proposal to adopt Trump priorities for funding benefits

MIT's president said she “cannot support” a White House proposal that asks MIT and eight other universities to adopt President Donald Trump’s political agenda in exchange for favorable access to federal funding

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Rainwater harvesting grows in the Southwest and beyond to nourish thirsty gardens in a hotter world

Home gardeners and landscapers in the U.S. Southwest and beyond are turning more to collected rainwater

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Asteroid Bennu contains stardust that's older than the solar system

"Bennu is a time capsule of the material that was throughout the solar system."

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Astronomers make ‘completely unexpected’ new planet discovery

Researchers from the University of Galway were among those who made an unexpected discovery of a new planet

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Irish astronomers aided ‘remarkable discovery’ of new planet

Irish astronomers were among those that made an unexpected discovery of a new planet, according to a new study.

Evening Standard

'Potentially hazardous' asteroid Bennu contains dust older than the solar system itself — and traces of interstellar space

The near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than the solar system and clues about its violent history, three new studies of the asteroid's sample materials show.

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Spiders may have originated in the ocean before adapting to live on land

University of Arizona researchers reviewed an "exquisitely preserved" fossil of Mollisonia symmetrica that supports the idea that spiders swam before adapting to life on land.

The Independent UK

Ex-wife of Berkeley professor arrested after his shooting death amid custody battle

Przemyslaw Jeziorski was shot dead in Greece while in the country to settle a custody dispute

The Independent UK

New model helps to figure out which distant planets may host life

The search for life beyond Earth is a key driver of modern astronomy and planetary science. The U.S. is building multiple major telescopes and planetary probes to advance this search. However, the signs of life – called biosignatures – that scientists may find will likely be difficult to interpret. Figuring…

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NASA picks Rocket Lab to launch shoebox-sized Aspera space telescope in 2026

NASA has selected Rocket Lab to launch its Aspera smallsat mission, which will study gases in the vast regions of space between galaxies.

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Exoplanet 'baby pictures' reveal exomoons possibly taking shape around infant worlds

Astronomers have examined infant planets orbiting a star 370 light-years away, seeing the exomoon forming disks of gas and dust around them in unprecedented detail.

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Lebron James' Son Commits To University Of Arizona

LeBron James supports son Bryce's decision to play basketball at Arizona. Excitement builds as the James family joins the University of Arizona community.

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He’s taking his talents to the desert: LeBron James’ younger son Bryce makes college pick

LeBron currently plays for the Los Angeles Lakers alongside his oldest son, Bronny

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'Cataclysmic' solar storm hit Earth around 2687 years ago, ancient tree rings reveal

If this colossal solar storm hit our technologically advanced world the effects would have been devastating.

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'Ridiculously smooth': James Webb telescope spies unusual pancake-like disk around nearby star Vega — and scientists can't explain it

The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming that it is not surrounded by any exoplanets, JWST images reveal. And scientists cannot explain its lack of alien worlds.

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'Vega continues to be unusual:' Lack of planets around young star puzzles astronomers

A joint Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project to learn more about the dusty disk around the bright star Vega has found a surprising lack of planets.

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St Andrews Links Collegiate Format, Which Teams Are Playing And How To Watch

The St Andrews Links Collegiate comes from the Jubilee Course and the Old Course – here are the essential details of the event

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Photographer Louis Carlos Bernal memorialized the barrios at the US-Mexican border

Louis Carlos Bernal, a Chicano photographer born in the Arizona border town of Douglas in 1941, invented a style of art photography that honored his Mexican American culture. In the process, he created an indelible record of life in Southwestern barrios – low-income, primarily Spanish-speaking neighborhoods – in the 1970s…

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University of Vermont president picked to lead the University of Arizona

Suresh Garimella, president of the University of Vermont since 2019, has been selected to serve as the new leader of the University of Arizona

Inverse

The Link Between Pets And Health Is Massively Misunderstood

Plenty of people believe there’s something salubrious about caring for a pet, similar to eating veggies or exercising regularly. Is that true?

Latin Times

UCLA, Arizona University team up in an education initiative to empower Latino advocates

The course will focus on instructing policymakers to use U.S. Census data.

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