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Quantum fuzzy spacetime may reshape gravity theoryBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 08, 2025 A team at TU Wien has developed a new way to connect quantum theory with general relativity by quantizing the spacetime metric and analyzing how this affects the paths that particles follow under gr ... more
JWST spots early Milky Way style spiral galaxy AlaknandaLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 Astronomers using NASAs James Webb Space Telescope have identified a massive spiral galaxy that resembles the Milky Way but existed when the Universe was only about 1.5 billion years old. Named Alak ... more
SPHERE debris disk survey maps hidden asteroid and comet belts in young planetary systemsBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 Observations with the SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope have produced a large gallery of debris disks around nearby young stars, revealing where unseen asteroid- and comet-scale bodies ... more
Vast spinning galaxy filament mapped in nearby UniverseBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 04, 2025 An international collaboration led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures observed so far, a thin string of hydrogen-rich galaxies embedded in a spinning c ... more |
Methane hint on TRAPPIST 1e seen as likely stellar noise not proof of an atmosphereLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 Two recent papers based on James Webb Space Telescope observations describe initial attempts to probe the atmosphere of TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized planet orbiting in the habitable zone of the nearb ... more
The bacteria that wont wake up found in spacecraft cleanroomsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 04, 2025 Researchers have characterized a bacterium from spacecraft assembly cleanrooms that can enter an extreme dormant state, allowing it to persist where contamination controls are designed to remove nea ... more
Subaru OASIS survey uncovers massive planet and brown dwarfTokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii have identified a massive planet and a brown dwarf orbiting distant stars, marking the first discoveries from the Observing Accelerators with SCExAO ... more
Supernova mixing traced as source of key life elementsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 Kyoto University and Meiji University researchers have used the XRISM X-ray satellite to quantify chlorine and potassium in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant, addressing a longstanding gap in how t ... more |
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Astronomers tighten expansion rate gap in universe measurementsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 A team of astronomers using several ground and space-based observatories, including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, has produced one of the most precise independent measurements yet of the u ... more |
TRAPPIST 1 flares mapped to probe planetary habitabilityBoulder CO (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 TRAPPIST-1, a small star about 40 light-years from Earth in the constellation Aquarius, produces flares roughly six times per day, and this activity complicates efforts to evaluate whether its plane ... more
New mass measurements refine X ray burst reaction flowTokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 A team at the Institute of Modern Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has directly measured the masses of the short lived nuclei phosphorus-26 and sulfur-27, providing data needed to determin ... more
Gravitational wave signals reveal dark matter around black holesBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 A research team at the University of Amsterdam has developed a new general-relativistic model that shows how gravitational waves from black holes can be used to reveal dark matter and constrain its ... more
Roman space telescope passes key construction milestone ahead of launch windowLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 NASA has completed assembly of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, joining the inner and outer sections of the observatory in the largest clean room at the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in ... more |
Milky Way chemical map shows diverse paths to galactic evolutionLondon, UK (SPX) Dec 08, 2025 A new analysis of simulated Milky Way analogues links the galaxy's unusual chemical patterns to how its disc formed and evolved over time. The work examines why stars near the Sun split into two dis ... more ![]() |
ESO signs MOSAIC deal for Extremely Large Telescope spectrographPotsdam, Germany (SPX) Dec 08, 2025 The European Southern Observatory ESO has signed an agreement with a large international consortium for the design and construction of the Multi-Object Spectrograph MOSAIC, an instrument for the Ext ... more
UChicago survey expands weak lensing test of the dark universeChicago IL (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 Astrophysicists at the University of Chicago have used data from the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) to extend weak gravitational lensing measurements to a new region of the sky, testing how well the sta ... more
KATRIN experiment rules out favored light sterile neutrino regionBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 04, 2025 Neutrinos are among the most abundant matter particles in the Universe, yet they interact so weakly that they are difficult to detect and study. The Standard Model includes three neutrino types, but ... more
Two dimensional crystal reveals hexatic phase in real timeVienna, Austria (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 When three dimensional materials melt, the transition from an ordered solid to a disordered liquid usually occurs abruptly once the melting temperature is reached. In atomically thin systems, theory ... more |
Shaping quantum light expands options for future technologiesBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 Researchers from the School of Physics at the University of the Witwatersrand, working with collaborators at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, report that controlling the structure of photons i ... more
Cosmic rays drive urgent search for better protection before crewed trips to MarsNorwich, UK (SPX) Dec 03, 2025 The first step on the Moon was one of humanity's most exciting accomplishments. Now scientists are planning return trips - and dreaming of Mars beyond. Next year, Nasa's Artemis II mission wil ... more
SwRI opens NOUR lab to track chemical pathways from nebulae to planetary systemsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2025 Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has established the Nebular Origins of the Universe Research (NOUR) Laboratory to investigate how the chemistry of interstellar material leads to the formation of ... more
Hot dust near a nearby star systemTucson AZ (SPX) Dec 03, 2025 Seventy light-years from Earth, astronomers studying the star Kappa Tucanae A have identified dust heated to more than 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit orbiting very close to the star, where such material s ... more |
Gels may have given early Earth chemistry a place to organize into lifeBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 03, 2025 An international team from Japan, Malaysia, the UK, and Germany has proposed that life on Earth may have emerged within sticky, surface-bound gels that formed before the first cells. The researchers ... more
Helium escape mapped from superpuff exoplanet WASP 107b by JWSTBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 03, 2025 An international team including astronomers from the University of Geneva and the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS has used the James Webb Space Telescope to study helium escaping f ... more
Decoded star reveals signs of distant stellar merger and black hole companionLos Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 27, 2025 Astronomers at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy analyzed the vibrations of a distant red giant star now orbiting a quiet black hole in the Gaia BH2 system. Using NASA's Transiting Ex ... more
Diamond defects, now in pairs, reveal hidden fluctuations in the quantum worldPrinceton, NJ (SPX) Nov 27, 2025 In spaces smaller than a wavelength of light, electric currents jump from point to point and magnetic fields corkscrew through atomic lattices in ways that defy intuition. Scientists have only ever ... more |
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A simple fiber-optic cable links reconfigurable quantum network in EdinburghLondon, UK (SPX) Nov 27, 2025 Researchers at Heriot-Watt University have constructed a prototype quantum network that connects two smaller networks into an eight-user system. This configuration enables both routing of entangleme ... more |
DEVILS survey maps how galaxy environments shape their evolutionSydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 27, 2025 A team at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research has released new data from the Deep Extragalactic Visible Legacy Survey showing that a galaxy's local environment has a major impact o ... more
Machine learning tool distinguishes signs of life from non-living compounds in space samplesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 27, 2025 Researchers developed LifeTracer, a machine learning framework, to analyze mass spectrometry data from space and terrestrial samples. They used advanced two-dimensional gas chromatography and high-r ... more
Gamma-ray observation may provide first direct evidence for dark matterTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 26, 2025 In the 1930s, astronomer Fritz Zwicky noted that galaxies moved faster than expected for their visible mass, suggesting an unseen matter now known as dark matter. Since then, dark matter remained un ... more
High-power optical vortex beams targeted for future light-matter research across EuropeBerlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 25, 2025 Tampere University has launched a pan-European doctoral network dedicated to the development of high-power optical vortex beams, securing 4.4 million euros in funding from the European Union's Marie ... more |
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