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January 15, 2026
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Berkeley Scientists set to home in on 100 signals from Seti at Home



Berkeley, United States (SPX) Jan 12, 2026
For 21 years, between 1999 and 2020, millions of people worldwide loaned UC Berkeley scientists their computers to search for signs of advanced civilizations in our galaxy. The project - called SETI@home, after the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) - generated a loyal following eager to participate in one of the most popular crowd-sourced projects in the early days of the internet. They downloaded the SETI@home software to their home computers and allowed it to analyze data recorded ... read more

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JWST red dots reveal rapidly growing early black holes
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 15, 2026
Since the James Webb Space Telescope began science operations in December 2021 some 1.5 million kilometres from Earth, astronomers have been puzzled by compact, intensely red sources scattered throu ... more
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Quantum light switch built from atomically thin mirror
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 09, 2026
Controlling light across scales, from microscopes and telescopes down to nanometers, is a central challenge in modern optics. Researchers at the University of Amsterdam have now demonstrated a nanos ... more
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Quantum key method enables redundant storage of qubit data
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 07, 2026
A team of researchers at the University of Waterloo have demonstrated a method to back up quantum information by encrypting qubits during copying, providing redundancy while remaining consistent wit ... more
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Bright supernova offers new view of black hole birth
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 13, 2026
What astronomers know about the birth of a black hole has long mirrored the objects themselves, tending to be dark, difficult to observe, and seemingly quiet despite their immense gravitational infl ... more
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Superheavy-lift rockets like SpaceX's Starship could transform astronomy by making space telescopes cheaper
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 10, 2026
After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A couple more test flights, and SpaceX plans to launch it into orbit. A ... more
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Early universe dark matter born red hot before cooling
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 14, 2026
Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and Universite Paris-Saclay report that dark matter in the early universe may have started out moving at nearly the speed of light, challenging ... more
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Mixed crystal phase of superionic water mapped inside giant planets
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 13, 2026
Temperatures of several thousand degrees Celsius and pressures of millions of atmospheres drive water into a superionic state in which hydrogen ions move freely through a solid lattice of oxygen ato ... more
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Pandora exoplanet mission checks in after launch
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 13, 2026
NASA mission controllers have acquired full signal from the agency's Pandora small satellite, confirming the health and initial operations of the exoplanet observatory following launch from Vandenbe ... more

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Jet from galaxy black hole drives vast stream of super heated gas into space
Irvine, United States (SPX) Jan 08, 2026
University of California Irvine astronomers have reported the discovery of the largest known stream of super heated gas in the universe flowing out of a nearby spiral galaxy called VV 340a. The team ... more
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Surrey Japan team to probe short lived atomic nuclei in cosmic element quest
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 09, 2026
Plans to obtain the first precision measurements of some of the rarest and most unstable atomic nuclei are set to advance understanding of nuclear structure and the way chemical elements form during ... more
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Quantum interferometer boosts sensitivity to tiny laser beam shifts
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 09, 2026
Researchers at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen have demonstrated a quantum interferometric method that can register extremely small tilts and displacements of a laser beam. The approach is ba ... more
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Jets from black hole drive record coronal gas stream in nearby galaxy
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 09, 2026
Astronomers at the University of California, Irvine have identified the largest-known stream of super-heated gas in the universe flowing out of a nearby disk galaxy called VV 340a, with their findin ... more
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Dark star theory links JWST early universe anomalies
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 09, 2026
A recent study led by Colgate Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Cosmin Ilie, with collaborators Jillian Paulin at the University of Pennsylvania, Andreea Petric of the Space Telescope Sci ... more
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Creating hallucination-free, psychedelic-like molecules by shining light on life's basic building blocks
Davis CA (SPX) Jan 08, 2026
UC Davis researchers have developed a new method that uses light to transform amino acids - the building blocks of proteins - into molecules that are similar in structure to psychedelics and mimic t ... more
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Electrons lag behind the nucleus
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 07, 2026
One of the great successes of 20th-century physics was the quantum mechanical description of solids. This allowed scientists to understand for the first time how and why certain materials conduct el ... more
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Giant amoeba virus ushikuvirus sheds light on how complex cells evolved
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 08, 2026
Giant DNA viruses that infect amoebae are providing new evidence that viruses may have helped drive the evolution of complex life, according to researchers at Tokyo University of Science and the Nat ... more
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Milky Way stars mapped as major source of ghost particle flux at Earth
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 09, 2026
Neutrinos, often called ghost particles, are elementary particles that are electrically neutral, extremely light, and interact only rarely with other matter. Trillions pass through Earth and the hum ... more
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Scientists uncover new quantum state that could power future technologies
Houston TX (SPX) Jan 15, 2026
Scientists have discovered a new quantum state of matter that connects two significant areas of physics, potentially leading to advancements in computing, sensing and materials science. A stud ... more
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Dark matter neutrino link may ease cosmic tension
London, UK (SPX) Jan 08, 2026
Scientists report signs that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, a possibility that would extend the standard cosmological model and change how structure growth in the universe is understood. ... more
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This crystal sings back: Illinois collaboration sheds light on magnetochiral instability
Urbana IL (SPX) Jan 14, 2026
Researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have reported the first observation of a dynamic magnetochiral instability in a solid-state materi ... more
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Barred spiral galaxy spotted 11.5 billion years in the past
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 09, 2026
Research led by Daniel Ivanov, a physics and astronomy graduate student in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, has identified a contender for one of ... more
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M dwarf plasma torus offers window into space weather and planetary habitability
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 08, 2026
Carnegie researcher Luke Bouma is using a naturally occurring plasma structure around certain young M dwarf stars as a kind of space weather station to investigate how stellar particles shape planet ... more
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Puffy young exoplanets reveal origin of super Earths
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 08, 2026
Astronomers have identified a young planetary system that links newborn giant worlds to the compact super Earths and sub Neptunes that dominate the Milky Way. V1298 Tau, a star about 20 million year ... more
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Star like early galaxies challenge views of cosmic evolution
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 07, 2026
Scientists at the University of Missouri have identified a small group of unusual objects in the early universe that look like stars in images yet behave like compact galaxies when analyzed in detai ... more
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We finally know how the most common types of planets are created
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 07, 2026
Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune orbit most stars. Oddly, our sun lacks such a planet. That's been a source ... more
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We have no idea what most of the universe is made of, but scientists are closer than ever to finding out
College Station TX (SPX) Jan 06, 2026
When it comes to understanding the universe, what we know is only a sliver of the whole picture. Dark matter and dark energy make up about 95% of the universe, leaving only 5% "ordinary matter," or ... more
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Milky Way black hole flare leaves X ray echoes in nearby gas cloud
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 07, 2026
Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is among the faintest known, yet new observations indicate it was far more active in the recent past on cosmic timescales. Sagittarius A*, at the Milky Way's cen ... more
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NASA selects industry partners to mature Habitable Worlds Observatory technologies
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 07, 2026
NASA has chosen a set of industry proposals to advance technologies for its Habitable Worlds Observatory concept, a planned flagship space telescope intended to directly image Earth-like planets aro ... more
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K dwarf survey maps stellar neighborhood for habitable worlds
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 07, 2026
A Georgia State University astronomy graduate student has led a new survey of nearby K-type stars to identify targets where Earth-like planets could provide conditions suitable for life. Sebastian C ... more
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Hubble tracks Betelgeuse companion carving dense wake in giant star atmosphere
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 06, 2026
Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope with ground-based observatories, astronomers have traced how Betelgeuse's recently identified companion star, Siwarha, disturbs gas in the red supergiant's extend ... more
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Hubble confirms dark starless relic cloud near galaxy M94
Paris, France (SPX) Jan 06, 2026
A team using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has identified a new type of astronomical object, a starless gas-rich dark-matter cloud considered a relic of early galaxy formation and nicknamed "Cloud-9 ... more
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