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August 25, 2025
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Aug. 18, 2025 With its two tiny CubeSats, NASA’s PREFIRE mission is capturing invisible heat escaping from Earth, offering clues to how ice, clouds, and storms influence the climate system. The insights could lead to better weather forecasts and a deeper ...
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 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 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 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 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 ...
'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 removes blur ...
May 23, 2025 Scientists may have solved the mystery of why the moon shows ancient signs of magnetism although it has no magnetic field today. An impact, such as from a large asteroid, could have generated a cloud of ionized particles that briefly enveloped the ...
May 21, 2025 Even under intense ultraviolet radiation from giant stars, the raw ingredients for planets can endure. Using Webb s powerful infrared eyes, astronomers examined a young star in the Lobster Nebula and ...
May 15, 2025 Researchers propose a new theory for the origin of dark matter, the invisible substance thought to give the universe its shape and structure. Their mathematical models show that dark matter could ...
May 13, 2025 Astronomers have developed a groundbreaking computer simulation to explore, in unprecedented detail, magnetism and turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM) -- the vast ocean of gas and charged ...
May 12, 2025 The universe is decaying much faster than thought. This is shown by calculations of scientists on the so-called Hawking radiation. They calculate that the last stellar remnants take about 10^78 years (a 1 with 78 zeros) to perish. That is much ...
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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. 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. 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 ...
Aug. 19, 2025 A mysterious blazar that baffled scientists for years has been unraveled. VLBA imaging revealed a toroidal magnetic field powering a jet aimed at Earth, explaining how it can unleash neutrinos and ...
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. 9, 2025 Physicists are exploring thorium-229’s unique properties to create a nuclear clock so precise it could detect the faintest hints of dark matter. Recent measurement advances may allow scientists to ...
Aug. 6, 2025 This is the first confirmed case of a star that survived an encounter with a supermassive black hole and came back for more. This discovery upends conventional wisdom about such tidal disruption ...
Aug. 2, 2025 NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has flown closer to the Sun than ever before, offering the first direct glimpse into the turbulent solar atmosphere. ...
July 22, 2025 NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is set to embark on a deep-sky survey that could capture nearly 100,000 cosmic explosions, shedding light on ...
July 13, 2025 Imagine a star powered not by nuclear fusion, but by one of the universe’s greatest mysteries—dark matter. Scientists have proposed the existence of “dark dwarfs,” strange glowing objects ...
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July 13, 2025 New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite galaxies—up to 100 more than we currently know. These elusive "orphan" ...
July 11, 2025 In its closest-ever dive into the Sun’s atmosphere, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has returned stunning new images and data that bring scientists closer to solving one of the Sun’s biggest ...
July 11, 2025 In a bold step toward sustainable space travel, scientists are engineering a radically small, protein-rich rice that can grow in space. The Moon-Rice project, led by the Italian Space Agency in ...
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 rare particle—never seen before and predicted ...
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 particles. The finding hints at ancient black hole ...
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 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 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 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 21, 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 ...
May 21, 2025 Scientists have discovered how solar activity affects the velocity distribution and evolution of helium pickup ...
May 8, 2025 In space, energetic neutrinos are usually paired with energetic gamma rays. Galaxy NGC 1068, however, emits strong neutrinos and weak gamma rays, which presents a puzzle for scientists to solve. A ...
May 7, 2025 Magnetar flares, colossal cosmic explosions, may be directly responsible for the creation and distribution of heavy elements across the universe, suggests a new ...
May 6, 2025 Astronomers have probed the physical environment of repeating X-ray outbursts near monster black holes thanks to data from NASA's NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) and other ...
Apr. 24, 2025 The world's largest solar telescope has reached an important milestone. The data published now were obtained during the technical commissioning of the ...
Apr. 16, 2025 Scientists have designed a 'cosmic radio' detector which could discover dark matter in 15 ...
Apr. 15, 2025 Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly distributed in the upper atmosphere, against expectations of uniform mixing. Scientists found evidence for a complicated but apparently real ...
Apr. 15, 2025 First ever supercomputer simulations of Mars with a fully molten core could explain the Red Planet's unusual magnetic field. Billions of years ago, Mars had an active magnetic field. ...
Apr. 11, 2025 Astronomers are investigating the longest and most energetic bursts of X-rays seen from a newly awakened black hole. Watching this strange behavior unfold in real time offers a unique opportunity to ...
Apr. 9, 2025 The NASA/ESA Solar Orbiter recently recorded the highest-ever concentration of a rare helium isotope (3He) emitted from the Sun. A Southwest Research Institute-led team of scientists sought the ...
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- 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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- Flickers and Flares: Milky Way's Central Black Hole Constantly Bubbles With Light
- Einstein Probe Catches X-Ray Odd Couple
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- Extreme Supersonic Winds Measured on Planet Outside Our Solar System
- How Galaxies Are Clustered and Threaded Throughout the Universe
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- Fresh, Direct Evidence for Tiny Drops of Quark-Gluon Plasma
- Three Tiny 'stellar-Ghost-Town' Galaxies Discovered
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- Physicists Explain a Stellar Stream's Distinctive Features
- Citizen Science Reveals That Jupiter's Colorful Clouds Are Not Made of Ammonia Ice
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- Dark Energy 'doesn't Exist' So Can't Be Pushing 'lumpy' Universe Apart
- Clever Trick to Cook Stars Like Christmas Pudding Detected for First Time
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- First Results from 2021 Rocket Launch Shed Light on Aurora's Birth
- Scientists Solving Meteorological Mysteries on Mars
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- Does the Exoplanet Trappist-1 B Have an Atmosphere After All?
- Anthropologists Call for Tracking and Preservation of Human Artifacts on Mars
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- NASA's Hubble Celebrates Decade of Tracking Outer Planets
- Mars' Infamous Dust Storms Can Engulf the Entire Planet: A New Study Examines How
- Universe Expansion Study Confirms Challenge to Cosmic Theory
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- A Formula for Life? New Model Calculates Chances of Intelligent Beings in Our Universe and Beyond
- Astronomers' Theory of How Galaxies Formed May Be Upended
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- Swirling Polar Vortices Likely Exist on the Sun
- Einstein's Equations Collide With the Mysteries of the Universe
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- Scientists Pin Down the Origins of the Moon's Tenuous Atmosphere
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