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Liftoff of Pandora - NASA’s Newest Planet-Observing Satellite

NASA Exoplanet Archive • January 12th, 2026

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s Pandora small satellite lifted off at 5:44 a.m. PST Sunday, Jan. 11, from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base...

Astronomers Discover the First Galaxy-wide Wobbling Black Hole Jet in a Disk Galaxy

IPAC News • January 8th, 2026

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have uncovered the largest and most extended stream of super-heated gas ever observed flowing from a nearby...

Young Galaxies Grow Up Fast

ALMA Large Program to Investigate C+ at Early Times • January 8th, 2026

Astronomers have captured the most detailed look yet at faraway galaxies at the peak of their youth, an active time when the adolescent galaxies were fervently producing new...

We finally know how the most common types of planets are created

IPAC News • January 7th, 2026

Four baby planets show how super-Earths and sub-Neptunes form.