Roman’s antenna, sunshade and visor are deployed. Here is why the telescope’s three-month commissioning journey matters before its first images arrive.

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University of Bern simulations and ESA Hera observations point to one non-destructive asteroid impact as the source of Deimos’ southern depression and dusty surface.

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Two NASA-funded studies trace how the Sun’s changing galactic surroundings may have altered Earth’s climate and helped warm the young planet.

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NASA’s Pandora satellite has started science observations of at least 20 exoplanets, measuring their host stars so Webb’s atmospheric results can be read more reliably.

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Twelve entrances opened onto the horizon at Chleby. The excavators link their directions to the Sun and Moon, raising questions about how people gathered there.

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A person sits on a leopard in a sculpture found inside a small stone building. What did this unusual pairing mean to the people of Karahantepe?

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A marble inscription found in its original position at Hadrian’s Villa refers to a lightning strike attributed to Summanus—and the Roman ritual of making the place sacred.

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A new Nature Astronomy study uses 114 fast radio bursts to trace cosmic gas and test how stellar and black-hole feedback reshapes matter around galaxies.

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Tiny minerals inside one of the most pristine meteorites ever found still carry a record of magnetism from the solar system’s first 200,000 years.

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The universe is expanding, yet galaxies still merge. The answer lies in gravity, local motion, and the difference between cosmic expansion and a galaxy’s neighbourhood.

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Gravity can bend and magnify light from a distant galaxy. Here is how gravitational lensing works, what Einstein rings are, and what astronomers learn from them.

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A Charnia fossil from Norway preserves rare ridges along its branches. Researchers trace how an underwater sediment flow may have carried and buried it.

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