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Giant rogue planets could host scaled-down planetary systemsLondon, UK (SPX) Aug 06, 2025 New findings from the University of St Andrews suggest that giant free-floating planets, unbound to any star, could form their own miniature planetary systems. Using data from the James Webb S ... more
Light driven visual microphone offers new tool for silent sound detectionTokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 01, 2025 Researchers at the Beijing Institute of Technology have developed a novel type of microphone that captures sound using light, offering a low-cost solution for detecting audio in situations where tra ... more
Ultrasmall optical devices rewrite the rules of light manipulationBoston MA (SPX) Aug 05, 2025 In the push to shrink and enhance technologies that control light, MIT researchers have unveiled a new platform that pushes the limits of modern optics through nanophotonics, the manipulation of lig ... more
Hints emerge of giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri AParis, France (SPX) Aug 08, 2025 Astronomers using the NASA ESA CSA James Webb Space Telescope have gathered strong evidence pointing to a giant planet circling Alpha Centauri A, one of the Sun-like stars in the closest stellar sys ... more |
Some young suns align with their planet-forming disks, others are born tiltedSanta Barbara CA (SPX) Aug 08, 2025 Researchers at UC Santa Barbara, The University of Texas at Austin, Yale University and National Taiwan Normal University have found that a fair number of sun-like stars emerge with their rotational ... more
James Webb Space Telescope discovers evidence of a new planetWashington DC (UPI) Aug 7, 2025 NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has discovered evidence of a giant planet orbiting a star in the solar system closest to Earth, the administration announced Thursday. ... more
Paperclip probe could journey to nearby black hole within a centuryTokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 08, 2025 It may sound like pure science fiction - a spacecraft no heavier than a paperclip racing toward a black hole at near-light speed - but astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi of Fudan University believes it cou ... more
New survey charts hundreds of satellite galaxies orbiting dwarfsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 06, 2025 A new astronomical survey led by Dartmouth College has identified 355 candidate satellite galaxies orbiting dwarf galaxy hosts - tripling the number of such systems previously studied. Of these, 264 ... more |
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Baby star blast warps its own disk in rare cosmic feedback loopTokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 06, 2025 Astronomers in Japan have identified a rare feedback loop in which a young star's explosive outflow has ricocheted back, striking and warping the very disk of gas and dust from which the star formed ... more |
NASA Hubble captures sharpest view yet of interstellar comet 3I/ATLASLos Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 08, 2025 A team of astronomers has used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to obtain the clearest image yet of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, enabling the most precise size estimates so far. The icy nucleus may mea ... more
New particle model opens overlooked pathway in dark matter searchLos Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 01, 2025 A team of physicists from the University of Sao Paulo (USP) in Brazil has introduced a new theoretical framework that could advance the search for dark matter by focusing on inelastic particles that ... more
Real time view reveals melting dynamics in two dimensional skyrmion latticesBerlin, Germany (SPX) Aug 06, 2025 Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have, for the first time, directly observed the microscopic melting process of a two-dimensional lattice structure in real time. Using magnet ... more
Black hole wave analysis refined using advanced WKB methodTokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 05, 2025 Black holes, the most gravitationally extreme objects in the universe, emit space-time ripples called quasinormal modes when disturbed - vibrations that can be detected as gravitational waves. These ... more |
Webb reveals hidden galaxy populations in revisited deep fieldParis, France (SPX) Aug 05, 2025 Webb has returned to the iconic Hubble Ultra Deep Field, providing astronomers with an unprecedented mid-infrared perspective of one of the most studied regions in the sky. Using nearly 100 hours of ... more ![]() |
Beyond the Shadow of a Black HoleAustin TX (SPX) Aug 05, 2025 he first black hole images stunned the world in 2019, with headlines announcing evidence of a glowing doughnut-shaped object from the center of galaxy Messier 87 (M87 - 55 million light years from E ... more Ithaca NY (SPX) Aug 01, 2025 Ice crystals in Earth's atmosphere sometimes align just right to create various striking visual effects, from a halo around the moon, to bright spots called sun dogs on either side of the sun in a w ... more
Galactic Center magnetic field offers new insight into stellar evolution dynamicsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 01, 2025 A new study of the Sagittarius C region in the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone has revealed a detailed portrait of the galactic magnetic field, offering fresh insight into how dense gas clouds, s ... more
NASA installs key 'sunblock' shield on Roman Space TelescopeGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 01, 2025 Technicians have successfully installed two sunshields onto NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's inner segment. Along with the observatory's Solar Array Sun Shield and Deployable Aperture Cove ... more |
Chemistry that shaped the cosmos revealed in helium hydride reaction studyBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 30, 2025 Immediately following the Big Bang some 13.8 billion years ago, the universe was a searing cauldron of energy and particles. Within seconds, temperatures dropped enough for the first elements - most ... more
Scientists and engineers build radio telescope bound for the MoonBrookhaven NY (SPX) Jul 30, 2025 The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has completed the "major item of equipment" phase for the Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment-Night (LuSEE-Night), a moon-b ... more
Famous double-slit experiment holds up when stripped to its quantum essentialsBoston MA (SPX) Jul 30, 2025 The experiment in question is the double-slit experiment, which was first performed in 1801 by the British scholar Thomas Young to show how light behaves as a wave. Today, with the formulation of qu ... more
One billion years of protein evolution reveals surprising design flexibilityMadrid, Spain (SPX) Jul 25, 2025 Proteins, the molecular machines of life, are constructed from 20 amino acids in seemingly infinite combinations-up to 10^78 possible sequences for a 60-residue protein. Yet only a tiny subset fold ... more |
Building blocks of life found in distant star system suggest origins in interstellar spaceBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 25, 2025 Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a team led by Abubakar Fadul from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has detected 17 complex organic molecules in the protop ... more
CTAO telescope uncovers fresh evidence for layered jet structures in historic gamma ray burstLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 24, 2025 The CTAO LST Collaboration has unveiled critical insights into gamma-ray burst (GRB) jets following detailed analysis of GRB 221009A-the most luminous GRB ever observed. The results, published in Th ... more
Diverse rocky planets found around nearby red dwarf including one in the habitable zoneParis, France (SPX) Jul 24, 2025 A Canadian-led team has revealed the most detailed analysis yet of the L 98-59 planetary system, confirming the presence of a fifth planet within its habitable zone. The system, located just 35 ligh ... more
XRISM mission maps sulfur distribution across Milky WayLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 24, 2025 An international research team has made the first direct measurement of sulfur in both its gas and solid forms in interstellar space, using X-ray data from the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spe ... more |
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Flash frozen silicon reveals patterns mirroring early universe dynamicsBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 24, 2025 A team of physicists from Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), University of Duisburg-Essen, and University of Alberta has discovered that ultra-fast cooling of silicon surfaces produces str ... more |
Atypical cosmic radio source spins up and defies conventional theoriesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 22, 2025 Astronomers have discovered a highly unusual space object named CHIME J1634+44, a Long Period Radio Transient (LPT) exhibiting behavior never before seen in this class of cosmic phenomena. Led by Fe ... more
NASA Research Shows Path Toward Protocells on TitanWashington DC (SPX) Jul 22, 2025 NASA research has shown that cell-like compartments called vesicles could form naturally in the lakes of Saturn's moon Titan. Titan is the only world apart from Earth that is known to have liq ... more
Nuclear timekeeping may reveal hidden traits of dark matterLondon, UK (SPX) Jul 22, 2025 For nearly a hundred years, scientists have sought dark matter, the unseen material believed to account for 80 percent of the universe's mass. Despite extensive efforts-including particle accelerato ... more
The secret life of neutrinosSan Diego CA (SPX) Jul 22, 2025 Neutrinos are cosmic tricksters, paradoxically hardly there but lethal to stars significantly more massive than the sun. These elementary particles come in three known "flavors": electron, muon and ... more |
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