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Sun like stars keep equator faster than poles for lifeLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 30, 2026 Researchers using one of the worlds most powerful supercomputers have overturned a long standing theory about how stars like the Sun rotate as they age. For more than four decades, models suggested ... more 
ALMA survey maps cold gas maze at Milky Way coreLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 30, 2026 Astronomers have produced the largest image ever made with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), revealing an intricate web of cold molecular gas at the heart of the Milky Way. Co ... more  
Tough microbe study backs idea of life moving between planetsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 29, 2026 Tiny life forms embedded in debris blasted off a planet by an asteroid impact could travel through space and arrive on another world still alive, according to new experiments by Johns Hopkins Univer ... more 
Stellar space weather may blur alien radio beaconsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 29, 2026 A new study from researchers at the SETI Institute suggests that turbulent space weather in other planetary systems could make artificial radio signals from distant civilizations much harder to dete ... more |
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New study reveals unusual nonquantum magnetic state in cerium compoundLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2026 Magnetic materials that host a quantum spin liquid state are a focus of intense research because they can exhibit exotic states of matter and may play a role in future quantum technologies. A new st ... more 
Molecular vibrations hurl electrons at extreme speedsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2026 Electrons can be kicked across solar materials at almost the fastest speed nature allows, challenging long-held theories about how solar energy systems work. The discovery could help researchers des ... more 
New HETDEX map uncovers hidden hydrogen structures in early cosmosLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2026 Astronomers working with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) have produced the largest and most precise three dimensional map to date of light from excited hydrogen in the you ... more 
Blazar population may power record energy neutrinoParis, France (SPX) Mar 09, 2026 Three years ago, the KM3NeT/ARCA neutrino detector in the Mediterranean Sea recorded the passage of an ultra-energetic cosmic neutrino, the most energetic neutrino ever detected, with an energy of a ... more |
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Study questions assumptions about hidden alien technosignalsBerlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 27, 2026 For more than sixty years, astronomers have conducted systematic searches for technosignatures, looking for artificial radio emissions, laser flashes, or excess heat that could reveal advanced civil ... more 
Dusty early galaxies shed new light on how the universe built its first giantsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 18, 2026 A team of 48 astronomers from 14 countries, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has identified a previously unseen population of dusty, star-forming galaxies located at the far reaches o ... more 
Study revisits chances of detecting alien technosignaturesSydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 19, 2026 For more than sixty years, astronomers have searched the sky for signs of advanced extraterrestrial technology, scanning the Milky Way for artificial radio transmissions, optical flashes and excess ... more 
Dynamic terrain model boosts airborne gamma ray survey accuracyLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 18, 2026 A research team led by Professor Hexi Wu and Dr Weicheng Li has developed a dynamic three dimensional terrain correction method that significantly improves the quantitative inversion accuracy of air ... more 
Researchers probe dark matter stars that resemble black holesBerlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 18, 2026 In 2019, an unusual gravitational wave event labelled GW190521 rippled across the universe and into detectors on Earth, initially interpreted as the merger of two black holes each tens of times more ... more |
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Slow mantle flow built Antarctica gravity low over tens of millions of yearsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 18, 2026 Gravity feels stable in everyday life, but its strength varies across the surface of the planet, and it is weakest beneath Antarctica after accounting for Earth rotation. These subtle variations ari ... more 
Experiments settle debate over how Molybdenum 93 isomer releases stored energyTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 17, 2026 A team at the Institute of Modern Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and collaborators has identified the dominant mechanism that releases energy stored in the nuclear isomer Molybdenum 93m. ... more 
Muon study clarifies superconducting behavior in strontium ruthenateTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 17, 2026 Quantum materials and superconductors are inherently complex, and unconventional superconductors pose an even greater challenge because they fall outside standard theoretical descriptions. One promi ... more 
Infrared archive reveals quiet birth of new black hole in AndromedaLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 16, 2026 Astronomers have used nearly two decades of infrared and optical observations to watch a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy quietly collapse into a black hole instead of ending its life with a bri ... more 
Einstein probe catch may show black hole shredding white dwarfTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 16, 2026 An unusual high energy outburst captured by the China led Einstein Probe space telescope is offering a rare look at how an intermediate mass black hole may tear apart and consume a white dwarf star. ... more |
Cheops spots inside out exoplanet quartetParis, France (SPX) Feb 16, 2026 Many students learn memory tricks to remember the order of the Solar System's planets, with rocky worlds close to the Sun and gas giants farther out. Astronomers have now found a nearby planet ... more 
Swift observatory changes operations ahead of planned orbit reboostLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 16, 2026 NASA has adjusted operations of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory to reduce atmospheric drag and prepare the spacecraft for a planned orbit-raising mission. On Feb. 11 the mission team temporarily ... more 
Hydrogen sulfide detected in distant gas giant exoplanets for the first timeLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 16, 2026 Hydrogen sulfide is what makes rotten eggs stink. But the discovery of this gas in the atmospheres of four distant, Jupiter-like planets is turning heads for a pleasant reason: It solves the mystery ... more 
Quantum team reads information from robust Majorana qubits using quantum capacitanceBerlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 16, 2026 Researchers have demonstrated a method to read information stored in Majorana-based qubits using a technique known as quantum capacitance, marking what they describe as a crucial advance for topolog ... more |
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Illinois team outlines emit-then-add route to photonic graph statesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 16, 2026 Physicists at the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have devised a new way to build large photonic graph states using currently available hardware. The s ... more 
Debris disc oddities point to hidden outer planetsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 13, 2026 Astronomers have obtained some of the most detailed images yet of debris discs around fully formed, so called teenage planetary systems, and say the irregular structures they see could reveal the pr ... more 
Photonic neurons push ultra-fast trading beyond electronic limitsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 13, 2026 In high frequency stock trading, the fastest systems typically capture the greatest advantage, putting a premium on shaving every possible fraction of a second from end to end latency. For years, th ... more 
Chance glimpse of star collapse offers new insight into black hole formationNew York (AFP) Feb 12, 2026 A watched pot never boils and love happens when you least expect it - turns out, the same logic applies to capturing a star as it collapses into a black hole. ... more |
Strange 'inside-out' planetary system baffles astronomersParis, France (AFP) Feb 12, 2026 Surprised astronomers said Thursday they have discovered a star with planets in a bizarre order that defies scientific expectations - and suggests these faraway worlds formed in a manner never seen before. ... more 
One dimensional anyons offer tunable quantum statisticsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 05, 2026 Physicists have traditionally divided all elementary particles in three dimensional space into just two categories, bosons and fermions, depending on how systems of identical particles behave when t ... more 
Pressure driven leakage from marine snow feeds deep ocean microbesParis, France (SPX) Feb 10, 2026 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 10, 2026 For many years, scientists viewed the deep ocean as a nutrient poor realm where microbes in the water column scraped by on scarce resources. New research from t ... more 
JWST study links sulfur rich gas giants to core growth in distant HR 8799 systemLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2026 Gas giants are large planets composed mainly of hydrogen and helium with dense cores but no solid surfaces. Astronomers have long debated how the most massive of these worlds form and where the boun ... more |
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Dark matter core may drive Milky Way centerLondon, UK (SPX) Feb 08, 2026 Our Milky Way galaxy may not host a supermassive black hole at its center but instead an enormous concentration of dark matter that exerts an equivalent gravitational influence on nearby stars and g ... more 
'The beacons were lit!' A system to detect and map merging black holesNew Haven CT (SPX) Feb 08, 2026 An international collaboration of astrophysicists that includes researchers from Yale has created and tested a detection system that uses gravitational waves to map out the locations of merging blac ... more
Runaway black hole jet outshines legendary death starLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 08, 2026 A supermassive black hole that shredded a nearby star is blasting out a jet of energy that has kept brightening for four years, in one of the most powerful events ever recorded in the universe. ... more 
Lab made cosmic dust experiment reveals paths to life chemistrySydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 06, 2026 A PhD candidate at the University of Sydney has recreated a small slice of cosmic chemistry in the laboratory by manufacturing carbon rich dust under conditions that mimic space. Working in the Scho ... more |
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