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Science News News 1 September 2025 - 10 September 2025

Mars Rock Sparks Life Clue, Back‑to‑Back Rocket Launches & Space Policy Shakeups – This Week in Space (Sept 9–10, 2025)

Mars Rock Sparks Life Clue, Back‑to‑Back Rocket Launches & Space Policy Shakeups – This Week in Space (Sept 9–10, 2025)

Key Facts: Launches & Satellite Missions SpaceX’s 24-Hour Launch Blitz – and a Scrub: SpaceX lined up two Falcon 9 launches on back-to-back days, showcasing the company’s rapid cadence. In Florida, a Falcon 9 was slated to carry Nusantara Lima, a 4.5-ton Indonesian telecom satellite, to orbit. After stormy weather caused two last-minute scrubs on Sept. 8–9 (with countdowns halted in the final minute) nasaspaceflight.com, teams targeted a Wednesday night launch from Cape Canaveral. The mission aims to deploy Nusantara Lima to a geostationary orbit, replacing a satellite lost in 2020 due to a launch failure nasaspaceflight.com. The well-traveled booster (B1078) is scheduled to land
10 September 2025
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Zombie Star, Planet Birth & AI Breakthroughs: Science News Roundup (Sep 8–9, 2025)

Zombie Star, Planet Birth & AI Breakthroughs: Science News Roundup (Sep 8–9, 2025)

Key Facts Space & Astronomy Planet Birth Caught in the Act: For the first time, astronomers have directly spotted a young planet forming inside the gap of a ringed disk around a sun-like star sciencedaily.com sciencedaily.com. The newborn exoplanet, named WISPIT 2b, was detected using an advanced adaptive optics system on the Magellan Telescope. It appears as a bright dot of H-alpha emission within a cleared gap of dust and gas sciencedaily.com sciencedaily.com – exactly where a “protoplanet” has long been predicted to carve out a gap. “Dozens of theory papers have been written about these disk gaps being caused by
9 September 2025
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Space Sector Frenzy: Launch Scrubs, Surprise Liftoffs & Bold Cosmic Moves Rock Sept 8–9, 2025

Space Sector Frenzy: Launch Scrubs, Surprise Liftoffs & Bold Cosmic Moves Rock Sept 8–9, 2025

Key Facts Rapid-Fire Launches: SpaceX and China Keep Up the Pace SpaceX’s busy week. Elon Musk’s SpaceX saw a flurry of launch activity and a bit of suspense. On Monday Sept. 8, Falcon 9 was minutes from launching the Nusantara Lima satellite (a 4.5-ton Indonesian communications satellite built by Boeing) when storms violated weather rules, forcing a scrub spaceflightnow.com. SpaceX reset for the next evening, and by Sept. 9 conditions improved enough to send Nusantara Lima toward geostationary orbit. The Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 8:01 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, successfully deploying the satellite after a 27-minute
9 September 2025
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Blood Moon Eclipse, AI ‘Black Box’ Warnings, and Breakthroughs Galore – Science News Roundup (Sept 7–8, 2025)

Blood Moon Eclipse, AI ‘Black Box’ Warnings, and Breakthroughs Galore – Science News Roundup (Sept 7–8, 2025)

Key Facts Space & Astronomy: Blood Moon Eclipse Wows the World A spectacular celestial event captivated skywatchers on the night of September 7–8, 2025: a total lunar eclipse turned the full Moon a deep coppery red for about 82 minutes timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Dubbed a “Blood Moon,” the eclipse occurred as Earth’s shadow completely blanketed the Moon. Unusually, this eclipse was widely visible across Europe, Africa, and Asia – an estimated 85% of the global population had a chance to witness at least part of it timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Observers from India to Australia marveled as Earth’s atmosphere refracted red light onto the Moon,
8 September 2025
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Hidden “Bad Fat” Threat, Dwarf Planet Discovery, and Warp Drive Breakthrough – Science Roundup (Sept 6–7, 2025)

Hidden “Bad Fat” Threat, Dwarf Planet Discovery, and Warp Drive Breakthrough – Science Roundup (Sept 6–7, 2025)

Key Facts Space & Astronomy Distant Dwarf Planet Candidate Discovered: Astronomers announced the discovery of a “hidden world” beyond Neptune – a trans-Neptunian object called 2017 OF201. With an estimated 700 km diameter and an extreme 25,000-year orbit, this object could qualify as a dwarf planet sciencedaily.com sciencedaily.com. It ventures from ~44 AU at closest approach to an aphelion ~1,600 AU (over 0.25 light-years) – far beyond Pluto. Its existence suggests the outer Kuiper Belt isn’t as empty as once thought sciencedaily.com sciencedaily.com. Interestingly, 2017 OF201’s orbit doesn’t line up with the clustering of other distant bodies that hinted at “Planet
7 September 2025
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Mars’ Core Revealed, “Pristine” Galaxy Spotted, Alzheimer’s Test Hope, and a Quantum Leap – Science News Roundup (Sept 4–5, 2025)

Mars’ Core Revealed, “Pristine” Galaxy Spotted, Alzheimer’s Test Hope, and a Quantum Leap – Science News Roundup (Sept 4–5, 2025)

Space & Astronomy Marsquakes Confirm Mars Has a Solid Metal Core Seismic readings from NASA’s InSight Mars lander have revealed that Mars possesses a solid inner core, much like Earth’s. A Chinese-led team analyzed faint marsquake waves and found Mars’ inner core extends ~613 km (~380 mi) from the center, likely made of iron and nickel, surrounded by a molten outer core phys.org. Previously, scientists suspected Mars’ core was fully liquid; this new finding (published in Nature) confirms a small solid center. “Our results suggest that Mars has a solid inner core making up about one-fifth of the planet’s radius – roughly
5 September 2025
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Interstellar Surprises, Ancient Fossils, and AI Breakthroughs – Top Science News (Sept 3–4, 2025)

Interstellar Surprises, Ancient Fossils, and AI Breakthroughs – Top Science News (Sept 3–4, 2025)

Space & Astronomy JWST Discovers Candidate “Pristine” Galaxy: Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers reported finding a distant galaxy almost entirely devoid of heavy elements, dubbed AMORE6 scitechdaily.com. If confirmed, this would mark the first-ever observation of a Population III galaxy – a primordial system of stars formed just ~900 million years after the Big Bang, containing only hydrogen and helium scitechdaily.com scitechdaily.com. “The existence of galaxies with no elements such as Oxygen… is a key prediction of the cosmological model,” the research team noted, yet until now no zero-metallicity galaxy had been identified scitechdaily.com. JWST saw that AMORE6
4 September 2025
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Glowing Planets, Seaweed Invasions & “Sleeper” Cancer Cures: Top Science Breakthroughs (Sept 2–3, 2025)

Glowing Planets, Seaweed Invasions & “Sleeper” Cancer Cures: Top Science Breakthroughs (Sept 2–3, 2025)

Space & Astronomy Baby Planet Caught in the Act: A landmark discovery in astronomy came from an international team that directly imaged a newborn exoplanet still in the process of formation. The planet, dubbed WISPIT 2b, is a gas giant roughly 5 million years old located around a young Sun-like star scitechdaily.com. Observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile revealed WISPIT 2b as a faint dot within a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk of dust and gas ts2.tech scitechdaily.com. This makes WISPIT 2b the first unambiguous photo of a planet forming inside a ringed disk – essentially a baby planet still glowing from its
3 September 2025
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Skywatch Alert: Aurora Glow, Shooting Stars & Planetary Spectacle Dazzle the Night Sky (Sept 3–4, 2025)

Skywatch Alert: Aurora Glow, Shooting Stars & Planetary Spectacle Dazzle the Night Sky (Sept 3–4, 2025)

Key Facts Full Report Skywatchers have plenty to look for on the nights of September 3–4, 2025. From the lingering afterglow of an aurora outbreak, to a moonlit meteor shower, a nearly-full Moon, bright planets adorning the sky, and even human-made satellites flying overhead – there’s a bit of everything happening. Below we break down all the major sky phenomena to watch for, with tips on when and where to see them. Whether you’re an avid stargazer or just curious and looking up for the first time, the next two nights offer a variety of cosmic sights that are accessible
3 September 2025
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Spectacular “Blood Moon” Eclipse: Everything to Know About September 2025’s Full Moon

Spectacular ‘Blood Moon’ Eclipse Set to Dazzle the World in September 2025

A Rare Celestial Event on September 7, 2025 On the night of September 7, 2025, skywatchers around much of the world will witness a spectacular full Moon eclipse. In astronomical terms, it’s a total lunar eclipse, meaning the Moon will pass completely through Earth’s dark inner shadow (the umbra). This alignment of Sun, Earth, and Moon can only happen during a full Moon, and it’s relatively rare – typically a few times per year at most. “People should be excited to view the total lunar eclipse… because it doesn’t happen all that often,” says Derrick Pitts, Chief Astronomer at the
2 September 2025
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Black Holes, ‘Gamechanger’ Drug & Climate Paradox – Science Breakthroughs (Aug 31–Sep 1, 2025)

Black Holes, ‘Gamechanger’ Drug & Climate Paradox – Science Breakthroughs (Aug 31–Sep 1, 2025)

Key Facts Space & Astronomy Webb Spots Earliest Known Black Hole Astronomers pushed cosmic limits by identifying the most distant black hole ever confirmed – in a tiny galaxy dubbed CAPERS-LRD-z9, only ~500 million years after the Big Bang sciencedaily.com. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) detected telltale spectroscopic signatures of fast-moving gas in this 13.3-billion-year-old galaxy, confirming a supermassive black hole ~300 million times the Sun’s mass at its core sciencedaily.com sciencedaily.com. “This adds to growing evidence that early black holes grew much faster than we thought possible, or they started out far more massive than our models predict,”
1 September 2025
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Space Race Heats Up: Starlink Milestone, Venus Flyby & Solar Storms Mark a Stellar Weekend

Space Race Heats Up: Starlink Milestone, Venus Flyby & Solar Storms Mark a Stellar Weekend

Key Facts Satellite Launch Highlights Starlink Launch Surge: SpaceX punctuated the end of August with a sunrise Falcon 9 launch on Aug. 31, carrying 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit spaceflightnow.com. Liftoff occurred at 7:49 a.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral’s SLC-40, and about 8½ minutes later the veteran booster (B1077, now with 23 flights) nailed a landing on the Just Read the Instructions droneship spaceflightnow.com spaceflightnow.com. This mission – Starlink Group 10-14 – was SpaceX’s 9th Starlink launch of the month and 108th flight of 2025, extending the company’s record-breaking cadence spaceflightnow.com spaceflightnow.com. All told, over 1,900 Starlink satellites have been
1 September 2025
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Stock Market Today

Seagate (STX) stock jumps nearly 6% as Citi hikes target — what to watch next week

Seagate (STX) stock jumps nearly 6% as Citi hikes target — what to watch next week

7 February 2026
Seagate shares rose 5.9% to $429.32 Friday after Citigroup raised its price target to $480 and reiterated a buy rating. The gain ended a two-day slide but left the stock 6.6% below its Feb. 3 high. CEO Dave Mosley sold 20,000 shares on Feb. 2 under a pre-arranged plan, SEC filings show. U.S. jobs and inflation data next week are seen as key tests for tech stocks.
Cummins (CMI) stock price rebounds after earnings whipsaw as investors eye data-center power demand

Cummins (CMI) stock price rebounds after earnings whipsaw as investors eye data-center power demand

7 February 2026
Cummins shares jumped 6.8% to $577.73 Friday, recovering from a nearly 9% post-earnings drop the day before. The company reported Q4 revenue up 1% to $8.54 billion, took a $218 million charge tied to its hydrogen business, and guided for 2026 EBITDA of 17–18% of sales. Demand for data center generators offset weakness in North American truck markets. Analyst reaction was mixed; Truist raised its price target.
Corning stock hits first record close since 2000 as jobs, CPI data loom

Corning stock hits first record close since 2000 as jobs, CPI data loom

7 February 2026
Corning shares surged 8.3% to $122.16 Friday, their highest close since the dot-com era, after Meta agreed to buy up to $6 billion in fiber-optic cables. The stock is up 40% since late 2025, fueled by strong first-quarter guidance and AI data-center demand. Insiders sold shares following the rally, SEC filings show. Investors await next week’s U.S. jobs and inflation data for rate signals.
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