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HUBBLE BUBBLE • Hubble captures a sparkling superbubble sculpted by winds and supernovae

New class of cosmic objects found • Mysterious hypersoft X-ray sources aren't like anything seen before

Space telescope may have doubled its mission time • Being frugal with fuel could extend Nancy Grace Roman's operation to 22 years

Did the Sun swallow a planet? • Our star may have ingested an ancient world up to 10 times the mass of Earth

Could yeast help build houses on Mars? • Bioengineered yeast and gelatine could bind Martian soil into a concrete-like substance

Reborn star seen racing through stellar evolution • Scientists get rare chance to witness a star's transformation on human timescales

27 new objects beyond Neptune hold ancient clues • Hubble and JWST reveal surprisingly unaltered billion-year-old icy bodies

Mystery of the youngest planet ever observed • At just one million years old, the baby giant is growing far faster than models predict

LRO explores once-in-a-century Moon crater • NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter uncovers fresh details of two-year-old impact

The Purple Planet? Mars as you've never seen it before • Mars Express orbiter captures the berry-toned cliffs of Thyles Rupes during Martian spring

Will the first astronauts on Mars be poisoned by Martian soil? • Escaping the Red Planet's toxic dust will be vital if we're ever to live there

Have we found a new type of galaxy? • Isolated dwarf galaxy with surprisingly few older stars may be a ‘late arrival’

INSIDE THE SKY AT NIGHT • George Dransfield explores how differently wired minds are pushing astronomy forwards

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Why dark matter still matters - even if we never find it • Whether it's a weird form of gravity or an as-yet unseen particle, the dark matter mystery still demands an explanation, says Brian Clegg

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope gets to work • Delivered early and under budget, NASA's newest observatory promises Hubble-quality views across vast swathes of sky. Caroline Harper explores how Roman is built to do more science, faster

How Roman got ahead • New space missions rarely stay on schedule. So how did Roman launch nine months early?

Roman's exoplanet quest • By spotting rare star alignments, Roman could discover thousands of hidden planets

Chasing the CORONA • When Yvette Cook travelled to rural Spain in search of a perfect eclipse, she discovered that totality is as much about the people beside you as the sky above

A stargazing two-for-one • Astronomers had a double treat when the Perseid meteor shower peak followed the eclipse

Spain's rare run of solar eclipses • Between 2026 and 2028, Spain experiences three solar eclipses very close together

Where are all the Milky Way's supernovae? • Supernovae should erupt in our Galaxy every few decades. So why haven't we seen one for more than 400 years, asks Giles Sparrow?

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