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Detection of ancient water ice suggests interstellar origins predating the Sun![]() ![]() Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jun 17, 2025 A team of astronomers from Leiden University and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory has confirmed the first robust detection of semi-heavy water ice surrounding a young sunlike star, strengthening the hypothesis that some of the solar system's water predates the Sun itself. Their study, based on observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, was published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. The researchers focused on the deuteration ratio-the abundance of water molecules where one hydro ... read more |
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![]() Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 17, 2025 The vast majority of matter in the universe is dark-it is entirely invisible and detected only through its gravitational effects. Ordinary matter-everything from protons to planets to people-makes u ... more ![]() ![]() Portsmouth UK (SPX) Jun 17, 2025 The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe - a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang into existence. But what if this was not the beginning at all? What if o ... more ![]() ![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 17, 2025 Astronomers have successfully traced the bulk of the Universe's "missing" ordinary matter to the intergalactic medium, using fast radio bursts (FRBs) as cosmic probes. Researchers from the Center fo ... more ![]() ![]() Louis, MO (SPX) Mon Jun 17, 2025 NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to begin science operations in 2027, is expected to uncover more than 160,000 gravitational lenses-cosmic alignments where a foreground galaxy bends and ... more |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Jun 11, 2025 Astrophysicists have gained precious new insights into how distant "exoplanets" form and what their atmospheres can look like, after using the James Webb Telescope to image two young exoplanets in e ... more |
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![]() Paris, France (SPX) Jun 11, 2025 String theory has long been touted as physicists' best candidate for describing the fundamental nature of the universe, with elementary particles and forces described as vibrations of tiny threads o ... more ![]() ![]() East Lansing MI (SPX) Jun 11, 2025 Star and planet formation has largely been considered separate, sequential processes. But in a new study, scientists at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have modeled a different scenario where pl ... more ![]() ![]() Baltimore MD (SPX) Jun 12, 2025 For the first time, scientists have used Earth-based telescopes to look back over 13 billion years to see how the first stars in the universe affect light emitted from the Big Bang. Using tele ... more ![]() ![]() Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 12, 2025 Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has co-authored a paper that uses young stars t ... more |
![]() Riverside CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2025 In a study that closes a long-standing knowledge gap in fundamental science, researchers Boerge Hemmerling and Stephen Kane at the University of California, Riverside, have successfully measured the ... more ![]() ![]() ![]() Available on Amazon Books |
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![]() Boston MA (SPX) Jun 11, 2025 MIT physicists have demonstrated a new form of magnetism that could one day be harnessed to build faster, denser, and less power-hungry "spintronic" memory chips. The new magnetic state is a m ... more ![]() ![]() London, UK (SPX) Jun 04, 2025 Scientists analysing an ultra-hot giant planet believe it was formed by absorbing lightweight gases like methane evaporating from tiny space pebbles, whilst being bombarded with large rocky objects. ... more ![]() ![]() Chicago IL (SPX) Jun 04, 2025 For the past decade, scientists have been trying to get to the bottom of what seemed like a major inconsistency in the universe. The universe expands over time, but how fast it's expanding see ... more ![]() ![]() Chicago IL (SPX) Jun 04, 2025 If you're an animal living through a mass extinction, it's best to be one that's found a unique way to make a living. A new analysis of the species that lived or died out in the wake of the as ... more |
![]() Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 04, 2025 "Are we alone?" This ancient question has occupied humanity's mind for a long time. In 1995, the discovery of the first exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star opened the door to exploring this profound ... more ![]() ![]() Princeton NJ (SPX) Jun 04, 2025 Technicians removed NASA's IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) spacecraft from its shipping container on Thursday, May 29, after transferring it from the airlock into the high bay at ... more ![]() ![]() Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 04, 2025 A newly discovered cluster of eleven quasars has shattered the previous record of five. Rather than being associated with a dense group of galaxies, these quasars sit on the boundary between two gro ... more ![]() ![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 04, 2025 As federal funding cuts impact decades of research, scientists could turn to black holes for cheaper, natural alternatives to expensive facilities searching for dark matter and similarly elusive par ... more |
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![]() Paris (AFP) June 4, 2025 Astronomers announced Wednesday they have discovered a massive planet orbiting a tiny star, a bizarre pairing that has stumped scientists. ... more ![]() ![]() Osaka, Japan (SPX) Jun 04, 2025 Proton beams with giga-electron-volt (GeV) energies-once thought to be achievable only with massive particle accelerators-may soon be generated in compact setups thanks to a breakthrough by research ... more ![]() ![]() Nashville, TN (SPX) Jun 04, 2025 In the world of black holes, there are generally three size categories: stellar-mass black holes (about five to 50 times the mass of the sun), supermassive black holes (millions to billions of times ... more ![]() ![]() Paris (AFP) June 2, 2025 The Milky Way may not have a catastrophic collision with another huge galaxy as has been predicted, computer simulations revealed Monday, giving our home galaxy a coin-flip chance of avoiding destruction. ... more |
![]() ![]() Available on Amazon Books ![]() ![]() Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jun 02, 2025 Astronomers at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) and international collaborators have uncovered a striking phenomenon: a cosmic object emitting both radio waves and X-ray ... more |
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![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 28, 2025 In the remote edges of planetary systems, far beyond the range of traditional planet-forming regions, astronomers have long grappled with the mystery of wide-orbit planets. These gas giants and plan ... more ![]() ![]() Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 28, 2025 Astrophysicist Kyu-Hyun Chae of Sejong University has developed a new technique to test gravity at very low accelerations using the full 3D velocities of wide binary stars. Unlike previous methods l ... more ![]() ![]() Berlin, Germany (SPX) May 26, 2025 Scientists at Paderborn University have set a new benchmark in quantum photonics by demonstrating the fastest control yet of individual photons in a cryogenic circuit. Their achievement marks a sign ... more ![]() ![]() Paris (AFP) May 24, 2025 When astronomers announced last month they might have discovered the most promising hints of alien life yet on a distant planet, the rare good news raised hopes humanity could soon learn we are not alone in the universe. ... more |
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