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Posted inNews

Sharpest-Ever Image of the Sun Shows Small but Mighty Swirls

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 10 September 202611 September 2026

These tiny instabilities could play an outsized role in energizing the Sun’s corona.

A space telescope in front of a purple nebula strewn with stars and galaxies
Posted inResearch & Developments

Roman Telescope Begins Quest to Reveal Evolving Universe

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 30 August 202630 August 2026

A new era of space exploration began today with the launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

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Posted inResearch & Developments

Swift Observatory Rescue Mission Fails

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 20 August 202620 August 2026

NASA’s attempt to rescue the falling Swift Observatory has failed. Look back at some of Swift’s most exciting discoveries.

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Posted inResearch & Developments

Scientists Might Have Detected the First Moon Outside Our Solar System… It Just Depends How You Define “Moon.”

by Emily Gardner 22 July 202622 July 2026

What exactly is a moon? It’s an existential question lunar researchers found themselves pondering when they discovered an exosatellite at least 90% the size of Jupiter, orbiting a brown dwarf in a solar system about 73 light-years away from Earth.

An artist’s illustration of an array of exoplanets with a 9 by 12 grid of colorful planets in a gibbous phase. A second grid of shadowed planets sits behind it.
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Astronomers Find 10,000 Potential New Exoplanets

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 13 May 202613 May 2026

That’s more than were detected in the entirety of NASA’s Kepler mission and its follow-on K2 and more than double the existing planet candidates from TESS that await confirmation.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory appears beneath the Milky Way and the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.
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Don’t Blink: The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Is Revolutionizing Astronomy

by Caryl-Sue Micalizio 1 April 20261 May 2026

This April, Eos is focusing on the world’s newest observatory and all the fast and faint objects it’s allowing us to see.

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Posted inFeatures

Small, Faint, or Fast, Rubin Will Find It

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 1 April 20261 May 2026

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to redraw the map of the solar system by discovering millions of small, fast-moving objects hidden all around us.

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Posted inEditors' Highlights

Revolutionizing Interference Detection to Protect the Silence of the Cosmos

by Jothiram Vivekanandan 1 April 20261 May 2026

TranQuiL is a groundbreaking system that revolutionizes Radio Quiet Zone enforcement by enabling long-range detection and precise localization of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth interference with unparalleled accuracy.

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Posted inEditors' Highlights

A Next-Generation Telescope for Space Weather Research

by Qiu-Gang Zong 30 March 202626 March 2026

The Meridian Project Phase II IPS telescope, featuring a novel dual-band phased array feed and AI-powered calibration, sets a new global benchmark for sensitivity in monitoring solar wind disturbances.

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The Planet That Shouldn’t Be There

Javier Barbuzano, Science Writer by Javier Barbuzano 11 March 202613 March 2026

A newly discovered exoplanet suggests that a different way to build planetary systems could be possible.

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