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July 5, 2025
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July 2, 2025 UF engineers, backed by DARPA and NASA, are perfecting laser-forming techniques that let metal sheets fold themselves into giant solar arrays, antennas, and even space-station parts right in ...
June 27, 2025 The LSST camera at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its jaw-dropping first images, each capturing 45 times the area of the full moon in one shot. Over the next ten years, this cosmic giant will scan the southern sky in ultra-HD, helping ...
June 25, 2025 Imagine printing your Martian home from dust, sunlight, and a bit of biology. A new synthetic lichen system uses fungi and bacteria to grow building materials directly from Martian soil, completely autonomously and without human ...
June 24, 2025 Lichen from the Mojave Desert has stunned scientists by surviving months of lethal UVC radiation, suggesting life could exist on distant planets orbiting volatile stars. The secret? A microscopic “sunscreen” layer that protects their vital ...
June 15, 2025 AI has helped astronomers crack open some of the universe s best-kept secrets by analyzing massive datasets about black holes. Using over 12 million simulations powered by high-throughput computing, scientists discovered that the Milky Way's central ...
June 5, 2025 Supermassive black holes might naturally replicate the colossal energies of man-made particle colliders possibly even revealing dark matter offering a cosmic shortcut to discoveries that would ...
June 3, 2025 Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this ...
June 3, 2025 Scientists have identified a new source of energetic particles near the Sun. These definitive observations were made by instruments aboard NASA's Parker Solar Probe, which detected the powerful phenomena as the spacecraft dipped in and out of the ...
June 2, 2025 Tracing the origin of an ultra-hot exoplanet: The chemical composition of WASP-121b suggests that it formed in a cool zone of its natal disc, comparable to the region of gas and ice giants in our Solar System. Methane indicates unexpected ...
May 30, 2025 A series of studies sheds light on the origins and characteristics of intermediate-mass black ...
May 30, 2025 The process of necrosis, a form of cell death, may represent one of the most promising ways to change the course of human aging, disease and even space travel, according to a new ...
May 29, 2025 Astronomers have explained how a galaxy cluster maintains its heat, despite emitting X-rays that cool the hot gas at its center. The group discovered the existence of a fast-moving, high-temperature ...
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July 5, 2025 Scientists are on the trail of a mysterious five-particle structure that could challenge one of the biggest theories in physics: string theory. This ...
July 3, 2025 Astronomers studying the remnant SNR 0509-67.5 have finally caught a white dwarf in the act of a rare “double-detonation” supernova, where an initial helium blast on the star’s surface triggers ...
July 1, 2025 Citizen scientists using the Kilonova Seekers platform spotted a stellar flash 2,500 times brighter than before, allowing astronomers to identify the exploding cataclysmic variable GOTO0650 within ...
June 30, 2025 Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists spotted thin and thick disks in galaxies as far back as 10 billion years ago—something never seen before. These observations reveal that galaxies ...
June 30, 2025 In a stellar nursery 460 light-years away, astronomers sharpened old ALMA data and spotted crisp rings and spirals swirling around 27 infant stars—evidence that planets start taking shape just a ...
June 28, 2025 A newly discovered radio halo, 10 billion light-years away, reveals that galaxy clusters in the early universe were already steeped in high-energy ...
June 28, 2025 A surprising discovery from a tiny grain of asteroid Ryugu has rocked scientists' understanding of how our Solar System evolved. Researchers found djerfisherite—a mineral typically born in ...
June 22, 2025 Scientists are peering into the universe's mysterious Cosmic Dawn using the faint whispers of hydrogen radio waves emitted over 13 billion years ago. These signals, particularly the elusive ...
June 22, 2025 A stunning breakthrough in solar physics reveals ultra-fine magnetic structures on the Sun's surface, thanks to the NSF's Inouye Solar Telescope. Researchers captured never-before-seen bright and ...
June 19, 2025 Astronomers have uncovered a colossal, searing-hot filament of gas linking four galaxy clusters in the Shapley Supercluster a discovery that could ...
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June 18, 2025 Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of the Sculptor Galaxy, revealing hundreds of previously unseen celestial features in stunning color and resolution. By combining over 50 hours of ...
June 14, 2025 A cosmic particle detector in Antarctica has emitted a series of bizarre signals that defy the current understanding of particle physics, according to an international research group that includes ...
June 14, 2025 Astronomers using ALMA have uncovered how gas and dust in planet-forming disks evolve separately an insight that reshapes our understanding of how different types of planets form. While dust lingers, ...
June 16, 2025 When Apollo astronauts stumbled across shimmering orange beads on the moon, they had no idea they were gazing at ancient relics of violent volcanic activity. These glass spheres, tiny yet ...
June 16, 2025 For the first time in history, we re seeing the Sun from an angle no one ever has: from above and below its poles. Thanks to the European Space Agency s Solar Orbiter and its tilted orbit, scientists ...
June 13, 2025 Data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of small galaxies that played a starring role in a cosmic makeover that transformed the early universe into the one we know ...
June 12, 2025 Surveying nearby galaxies in the process of merging with other galaxies, astronomers have identified massive, dense star factories, unlike any found in the Milky Way. The findings provide a rare ...
June 12, 2025 NASA s CODEX experiment aboard the International Space Station is revealing the Sun like never before. Using advanced filters and a specialized coronagraph, CODEX has captured images showing that the ...
June 11, 2025 Astronomers have pulled off an unprecedented feat: detecting ultra-faint light from the Big Bang using ground-based telescopes. This polarized light scattered by the universe's very first stars ...
June 10, 2025 Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have captured breathtakingly detailed images of two giant exoplanets orbiting a distant sun-like star. These observations revealed sand-like silicate ...
June 15, 2025 At the heart of our galaxy lies a cosmic puzzle: although the Galactic Center is packed with star-making material, massive stars form there surprisingly slowly. Using NASA's retired SOFIA ...
June 10, 2025 A violent solar eruption on May 31 launched a coronal mass ejection (CME) hurtling toward Earth, triggering a rare G4-level geomagnetic storm alert. Captured in real-time by U.S. Naval Research ...
June 10, 2025 A team of international astronomers has uncovered what may be a gas giant planet forming around a distant young star. Using the powerful Very Large Telescope in Chile, they captured dazzling ...
June 9, 2025 Planets may begin forming much earlier than scientists once believed during the final stages of a star s birth, not afterward. This bold new model, backed by simulations from researchers at SwRI, ...
June 7, 2025 An international team of scientists has unveiled the largest and most detailed map of the universe ever created using the James Webb Space Telescope, revealing nearly 800,000 galaxies stretching back ...
June 17, 2025 Astronomers have identified a new kind of cosmic explosion extreme nuclear transients so powerful they outshine typical supernovae by orders of magnitude and stay bright for years. Triggered when ...
June 11, 2025 Scientists have discovered a giant planet orbiting a tiny red dwarf star, something they believed wasn t even possible. The planet, TOI-6894b, is about the size of Saturn but orbits a star just a ...
May 28, 2025 A series of experiments support spectral data recently collected by the James Webb Space Telescope that found evidence that the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa is constantly changing. ...
May 28, 2025 A team of international astronomers have discovered a new cosmic object emitting both radio waves and ...
'Raindrops in the Sun's Corona': New Adaptive Optics Shows Stunning Details of Our Star's Atmosphere
May 27, 2025 Scientists have produced the finest images of the Sun's corona to date. To make these high-resolution images and movies, the team developed a new 'coronal adaptive optics' system that ...
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Saturday, June 14, 2025
- Impossible Signal from Deep Beneath Antarctic Ice Baffles Physicists
- Why Giant Planets Might Form Faster Than We Thought
Monday, June 16, 2025
- Tiny Orange Beads Found by Apollo Astronauts Reveal Moon’s Explosive Past
- Magnetic Mayhem at the Sun’s Poles: First Images Reveal a Fiery Mystery
Friday, June 13, 2025
Thursday, June 12, 2025
- NASA’s Webb Telescope Reveals Monster Star Clumps in Galactic Wreckage
- Sun’s Secret Storms Exposed: NASA's Codex Unveils a Turbulent Corona
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
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Sunday, June 15, 2025
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
- Sun Unleashes Monster Solar Storm: Rare G4 Alert Issued for Earth
- Scientists May Have Spotted a Giant New Planet Forming
Monday, June 9, 2025
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Tuesday, June 17, 2025
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Wednesday, May 28, 2025
- Ongoing Surface Modification on Jupiter's Moon Europa Uncovered
- Cosmic Mystery Deepens as Astronomers Find Object Flashing in Both Radio Waves and X-Rays
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
- 'Raindrops in the Sun's Corona': New Adaptive Optics Shows Stunning Details of Our Star's Atmosphere
Friday, May 23, 2025
Thursday, May 22, 2025
- Saturn's Moon: Mysterious Wobbling Atmosphere Like a Gyroscope
- ALMA Measures Evolution of Monster Barred Spiral Galaxy
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
- Unveiling the Secrets of Planet Formation in Environments of High UV Radiation
- Scientist Discovers How Solar Events Affect the Velocity of Helium Pickup Ions
- 'Cosmic Joust': Astronomers Observe Pair of Galaxies in Deep-Space Battle
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
- Gas Location Drives Star Formation in Distant Galaxies
- Missing Link in Early Martian Water Cycle Discovered
Monday, May 19, 2025
- Astronomers Observe Largest Ever Sample of Galaxies Up to Over 12 Billion Light Years Away
- Streaked Slopes on Mars Probably Not Signs of Water Flow, Study Finds
- Not One, but Two Massive Black Holes Are Eating Away at This Galaxy
Thursday, May 15, 2025
- Ultraviolet Data from NASA's Europa Clipper Mission
- A Multitude of Protoplanetary Discs Detected in the Galactic Centre
- Stretched in a Cross Pattern: Our Neighboring Galaxy Is Pulled in Two Axes
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
- What Lies Beneath: Using Rock Blasted from Craters to Probe the Martian Subsurface
- Dark Matter Formed When Fast Particles Slowed Down and Got Heavy, New Theory Says
- Astronomers Take a Second Look at Twin Star Systems
- New Insights Into Black Hole Scattering and Gravitational Waves Unveiled
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Monday, May 12, 2025
- Universe Decays Faster Than Thought, but Still Takes a Long Time
- Astrophysicist Searches for Ripples in Space and Time in New Way
Friday, May 9, 2025
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Monday, April 28, 2025
- A Vast Molecular Cloud, Long Invisible, Is Discovered Near Solar System
- New Look at Galactic Region Surrounding Our Solar System: Lyman-Alpha Emissions
- New Research Shatters Long-Held Beliefs About Asteroid Vesta
Friday, April 25, 2025
Thursday, April 24, 2025
- The Heart of World's Largest Solar Telescope Begins to Beat
- Evidence Blasted Into Space: Mystery Why Some Meteorites Look Less Shocked Solved
- Scientists Use James Webb Space Telescope to Better Understand Solar System's Origins
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
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Friday, April 18, 2025
- Turning Down Starlight to Spot New Exoplanets
- Scientists Probe the Mystery of Titan's Missing Deltas
- Volcanic History and Clues to Ancient Life on Mars
Thursday, April 17, 2025
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
- Strongest Hints Yet of Biological Activity Outside the Solar System
- Ever Wonder Why Some Meteor Showers Are So Unpredictable?
- 'Big Surprise': Astronomers Find Planet in Perpendicular Orbit Around Pair of Stars
- Crystal Clues on Mars Point to Watery and Possibly Life-Supporting Past
- The Most Distant Twin of the Milky Way Ever Observed
- 'Cosmic Radio' Could Find Dark Matter in 15 Years
- Scientists Find Evidence That Overturns Theories of the Origin of Water on Earth
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
- On Jupiter, It's Mushballs All the Way Down
- Molten Martian Core Could Explain Red Planet's Magnetic Quirks
- Mysterious Atmosphere of 'Rosetta Stone' Exoplanet
Monday, April 14, 2025
Friday, April 11, 2025
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
- 'Hidden Galaxies': Key to Unlocking Some of Universe's Secrets
- Scientists Source Solar Emissions With Largest-Ever Concentration of Rare Helium Isotope
- Scientists Discover How Stellar-Mass Black Holes Emit Powerful Plasma Jets
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
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Friday, April 4, 2025
Thursday, April 3, 2025
- Solar Wave Squeezed Jupiter's Magnetic Shield to Unleash Heat
- Solar Cells Made of Moon Dust Could Power Future Space Exploration
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
- Galaxies Die Earlier Than Expected
- Asteroid Impact Threat Estimates Improved for the Earth and the Moon
- Insight from One of Milky Way's Most Extreme Environments
- Sound Frequencies of Stars Sing of Our Galaxy's Past and Future
Monday, March 31, 2025
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Thursday, March 20, 2025
- Oxygen Discovered in Most Distant Known Galaxy
- New DESI Results Strengthen Hints That Dark Energy May Evolve
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
- Nanomaterials Used to Measure Nuclear Reaction on Radioactive Nuclei Produced in Neutron Star Collisions
- Meteorites: A Geologic Map of the Asteroid Belt
Monday, March 17, 2025
- Combination of Cosmic Processes Shapes the Size and Location of Sub-Neptunes
- Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System
- Age of Upcoming Asteroid Flyby Target