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August 25, 2025
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Aug. 22, 2025 Astronomers using AI have captured a once-in-a-lifetime cosmic event: a massive star’s violent death triggered by its black hole companion. The explosion, known as SN 2023zkd, not only produced a brilliant supernova but also shocked scientists by ...
Aug. 18, 2025 NASA and ISRO s NISAR satellite has just reached a major milestone: the successful deployment of its enormous 39-foot antenna reflector in orbit. Folded up like an umbrella during launch, the reflector is now fully extended and ready to support ...
Aug. 17, 2025 Rising CO₂ levels will make the upper atmosphere colder and thinner, altering how geomagnetic storms impact satellites. Future storms could cause sharper density spikes despite lower overall density, increasing drag-related ...
July 27, 2025 Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison uncovered a critical flaw in how lunar and Martian rovers are tested on Earth. Simulations revealed that test results have been misleading for decades because researchers only adjusted rover weight to ...
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 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 2, 2025 WASP-121b may have been born in a frozen zone and later migrated into its current inferno-like orbit. A surprise discovery of methane in the wrong place suggests intense vertical winds are reshaping how we understand planetary ...
May 30, 2025 A series of studies sheds light on the origins and characteristics of intermediate-mass black ...
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Aug. 24, 2025 Astronomers have detected the closest and brightest fast radio burst ever recorded, a dazzling signal from a galaxy just 130 million light-years away. The extraordinary flash, nicknamed RBFLOAT, ...
Aug. 23, 2025 Scientists studying asteroids found that two seemingly unrelated types share a strange dusty coating of troilite. By using polarization of light instead of traditional spectra, they uncovered ...
Aug. 23, 2025 Earth may already be broadcasting its presence to alien civilizations without realizing it. A new study shows that our deep-space transmissions, especially those aimed at Mars and interplanetary ...
Aug. 22, 2025 Astronomers may have uncovered the origins of the mysterious “little red dots,” some of the strangest galaxies seen in the early universe. These ...
Aug. 22, 2025 Scientists are rethinking the universe’s deepest mysteries using numerical relativity, complex computer simulations of Einstein’s equations in extreme conditions. This method could help explore ...
Aug. 21, 2025 A giant bubble of gas and dust surrounds the red supergiant DFK 52, likely created in a powerful outburst 4,000 years ago. Astronomers are baffled at how the star survived without going supernova, ...
Aug. 21, 2025 Scientists have identified a never-before-seen supernova, SN2021yfj, which exploded after losing nearly all of its outer layers. Instead of light elements, it revealed silicon and sulfur from deep ...
Aug. 21, 2025 Massive stars have always puzzled scientists—how do they grow so quickly despite fierce radiation pushing material away? New high-resolution ALMA observations suggest that instead of relying solely ...
Aug. 20, 2025 Hubble’s newest view of the spiral galaxy NGC 2835 adds a stunning twist to a familiar sight. By capturing light in a special wavelength called H-alpha, astronomers have revealed glowing pink ...
Aug. 20, 2025 NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has directly observed magnetic reconnection in the Sun’s atmosphere for the first time, confirming decades-old theories about solar explosions. This discovery bridges ...
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Aug. 18, 2025 By exploring positive geometry, mathematicians are revealing hidden shapes that may unify particle physics and cosmology, offering new ways to understand both collisions in accelerators and the ...
Aug. 15, 2025 Hubble has captured the faint beauty of NGC 45, a spiral galaxy in Cetus whose glowing pink star-forming clouds reveal hidden activity. It belongs to the rare class of low surface brightness ...
Aug. 14, 2025 NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected strong evidence for a giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the nearest Sun-like star to Earth. Located just 4 light-years away, this possible ...
Aug. 15, 2025 A curious red Martian rock nicknamed Sapphire Canyon has scientists excited, as its spotted appearance hints at possible organic origins. On Earth, researchers tested a powerful laser technique, ...
Aug. 19, 2025 For decades, scientists have puzzled over why so little sulfur appears in space, even though it is one of the most common elements in the universe and vital to life. A new study suggests that the ...
Aug. 11, 2025 Hubble’s latest portrait of the Tarantula Nebula reveals a turbulent star-making region far beyond the Milky Way. Located 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, this cosmic expanse ...
Aug. 10, 2025 A visionary plan proposes sending a paperclip-sized spacecraft, powered by Earth-based lasers, to a nearby black hole within a century. Led by astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi, the mission would test the ...
Aug. 10, 2025 Astronomers have uncovered what may be the most massive black hole ever found, 36 billion times the mass of our Sun, hidden at the heart of the Cosmic Horseshoe galaxy. Located 5 billion light-years ...
Aug. 7, 2025 Hubble has helped uncover a white dwarf that’s likely the result of two stars crashing together. Carbon traces in its atmosphere tell a story of a cosmic merger, a rare phenomenon previously ...
Aug. 6, 2025 Scientists have successfully synthesized methanetetrol, an incredibly unstable and previously elusive compound thought to be a key ingredient in the chemical evolution of life. Described as a ...
Aug. 6, 2025 Astronomers have discovered a ghostly, million-light-year-long bridge of stars connecting two massive galaxies within the Abell 3667 cluster, 700 million light-years away. This glowing thread of ...
Aug. 7, 2025 Astronomers have stumbled upon an incredible cosmic chain reaction: a young star launched a high-speed jet that ignited an explosion, creating a massive bubble in space that is now slamming back into ...
Aug. 4, 2025 In a spectacular image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, the spiral galaxy NGC 1309 glows with cosmic elegance and hides a strange ...
Aug. 13, 2025 UC Santa Cruz physicist Stefano Profumo has put forward two imaginative but scientifically grounded theories that may help solve one of the biggest mysteries in physics: the origin of dark matter. In ...
Aug. 1, 2025 Using a powerful mathematical tool, scientists have unveiled the intricate "ringing" of black holes, unlocking patterns missed for decades and laying the groundwork for sharper ...
Aug. 3, 2025 Long before stars lit up the sky, the universe was a hot, dense place where simple chemistry quietly set the stage for everything to come. Scientists have now recreated the first molecule ever to ...
Aug. 3, 2025 A rare mineral from a 1724 meteorite defies the rules of heat flow, acting like both a crystal and a glass. Thanks to AI and quantum physics, researchers uncovered its bizarre ability to maintain ...
Aug. 3, 2025 Cosmic rays from deep space might be the secret energy source that allows life to exist underground on Mars and icy moons like Enceladus and Europa. New research reveals that when these rays interact ...
Aug. 2, 2025 Astronomers using ALMA have discovered complex organic molecules, including potential precursors to life's building blocks, in the protoplanetary disc of a young star, V883 Orionis. This finding ...
Aug. 13, 2025 A groundbreaking quantum device small enough to fit in your hand could one day answer one of the biggest questions in science — whether the multiverse is real. This tiny chip can generate extreme ...
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- This Tiny Spacecraft Could Race to a Black Hole and Rewrite Physics
- Giant Einstein Ring Reveals One of the Universe’s Biggest Black Holes
Thursday, August 7, 2025
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- Scientists Create Mysterious Molecule That Could Spark Life in Space
- ‘Bridge’ of Stray Stars Reveals Two Massive Galaxies Tearing Each Other Apart
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- Scientists Just Recreated the Universe’s First Molecule and Solved a 13-Billion-Year-Old Puzzle
- AI Cracks a Meteorite’s Secret: A Material That Defies Heat
- Underground Life on Mars? Cosmic Rays Could Make It Possible
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- Mysterious Object Found Dancing With Neptune
- Astronomers Just Witnessed Planets Being Born Around a Baby Star 1300 Light-Years Away
- NASA’s IXPE Tracked a Rare Pulsar—and Found an Unexpected Power Source
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- Hubble Cracks Open a Glittering Cosmic Time Capsule, Revealing Multi-Generational Stars 160,000 Light-Years Away
- It Looked Like Nothing—then Scientists Found a World 10x the Size of Jupiter
- Two Monster Black Holes Just Collided — It’s So Massive, It Shouldn’t Exist
- Gravitational Shockwave: LIGO Catches a 225-Solar-Mass Black-Hole Smash-Up
Friday, July 11, 2025
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- 100 Ghost Galaxies May Be Orbiting the Milky Way—and We’re Just Now Uncovering Them
- These Mysterious Stars Could Glow Forever Using Dark Matter
Friday, July 11, 2025
- NASA Probe Flies Into the Sun and Captures the Origins of Solar Storms
- This Tiny Rice Plant Could Feed the First Lunar Colony
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- Astronomers Catch Planets in the Act of Being Born
- Ice in a Million-Degree Fermi Bubble Reveals the Milky Way’s Recent Eruption
- Hidden DNA-Sized Crystals in Cosmic Ice Could Rewrite Water—and Life Itself
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- 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
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- NASA’s Webb Telescope Reveals Monster Star Clumps in Galactic Wreckage
- Sun’s Secret Storms Exposed: NASA's Codex Unveils a Turbulent Corona
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- Sun Unleashes Monster Solar Storm: Rare G4 Alert Issued for Earth
- Scientists May Have Spotted a Giant New Planet Forming
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- 'Raindrops in the Sun's Corona': New Adaptive Optics Shows Stunning Details of Our Star's Atmosphere
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- Unveiling the Secrets of Planet Formation in Environments of High UV Radiation
- 'Cosmic Joust': Astronomers Observe Pair of Galaxies in Deep-Space Battle
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- Astronomers Observe Largest Ever Sample of Galaxies Up to Over 12 Billion Light Years Away
- Not One, but Two Massive Black Holes Are Eating Away at This Galaxy
Thursday, May 15, 2025
- 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
- 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
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- Universe Decays Faster Than Thought, but Still Takes a Long Time
- Astrophysicist Searches for Ripples in Space and Time in New Way
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- NASA's NICER Maps Debris from Recurring Cosmic Crashes
- New Silver Mass Brings Us a Step Closer in Our Understanding of the Antineutrino Mass