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December 17, 2025
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Webb maps carbon rich atmosphere on distorted pulsar planet



Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have identified an exoplanet with an atmosphere unlike any seen before, orbiting a rapidly spinning neutron star known as a pulsar. The object, officially designated PSR J2322-2650b, has a mass comparable to Jupiter but is stretched into a lemon-like shape by the strong gravitational pull of its compact host star. Its atmosphere appears dominated by helium and carbon, with soot-like carbon clouds that models suggest could condense into diamonds deep ins ... read more

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Carruthers observatory returns first ultraviolet views of Earth and Moon
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
NASA's Carruthers Geocorona Observatory has captured its first images from space, providing ultraviolet views of Earth and the Moon and confirming that the spacecraft and its instruments are operati ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
CoDICE instrument returns first-light particle data for IMAP mission
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
December 16, 2025 - Southwest Research Institute's Compact Dual Ion Composition Experiment (CoDICE) instrument aboard NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) spacecraft has begun r ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
ALMA completes band two receiver chain with low noise amplifiers
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the Chilean Andes is one of the most powerful radio telescope facilities used to probe cold and distant regions of the universe. Researcher ... more
PHYSICS NEWS
Laser experiment proposed to probe quantum nature of gravity
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
Researchers at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf have outlined an experiment in which light exchanges discrete packets of energy with gravitational waves, potentially revealing the long-sought qu ... more
EXO WORLDS
Can scientists detect life without knowing what it looks like
Atlanta GA (SPX) Dec 16, 2025
When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found something astonishing. ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Gemini North tracks changing glow of interstellar Comet 3IATLAS
Tucson AZ (SPX) Dec 16, 2025
Gemini North has obtained new color images of Comet 3I/ATLAS after the interstellar object emerged from behind the Sun on its outbound trajectory from the Solar System. Using the Gemini Multi-Object ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Roman infrared survey to chart hidden structure of Milky Way
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 12, 2025
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy, the Milky Way, in unprecedented detail. In one month of observations sp ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Solar ghost particles seen flipping carbon atoms in underground detector
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 11, 2025
Scientists have recorded solar neutrinos changing carbon-13 into nitrogen-13 inside the SNO+ detector in Canada, marking the first observation of this specific interaction between neutrinos and carb ... more

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New island of inversion found in proton neutron symmetric molybdenum nuclei
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 09, 2025
For decades, nuclear physicists have known that so called islands of inversion mark regions of the nuclear chart where standard shell structure breaks down and magic numbers vanish in favor of stron ... more
EXO WORLDS
Clues to the migration path of hot Jupiters in their orbits
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 16, 2025
The first exoplanet discovered in 1995 was a hot Jupiter, a Jupiter mass planet orbiting its star every few days. Today, models indicate that hot Jupiters form far from their stars, similar to Jupit ... more
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Hidden circumbinary giant planet emerges from decade old Gemini data
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
Astronomers have directly imaged a giant exoplanet orbiting a pair of stars, in a configuration reminiscent of the fictional Tatooine system but with the closest-known directly imaged planet to its ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Quasar X ray link to black hole environment found to evolve over cosmic time
London, UK (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
Astronomers using new X ray data have found evidence that the structure of matter around supermassive black holes has changed over billions of years, challenging a quasar relationship that has been ... more
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Ultra hot super Earth shows dense atmosphere over magma ocean
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
A Carnegie-led team using NASAs James Webb Space Telescope has obtained the strongest evidence so far for an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet, detecting a substantial gaseous envelope around the ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Gravitational lens time delays refine Hubble constant
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 09, 2025
Astronomers are testing a new way to measure how fast the universe is expanding by using time delays in gravitationally lensed images of distant quasars, in an effort to clarify the long-standing te ... more
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Star wobble reveals black hole dragging spacetime
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 11, 2025
Astronomers have reported the first clear observation of a swirling distortion in spacetime produced by a rapidly spinning black hole, seen through the motion of material left over from a disrupted ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Record gamma ray burst traced to dusty massive host galaxy
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2025
Gamma ray bursts rank among the most energetic explosions known, usually flashing and fading within seconds or minutes, but on 2 July 2025 astronomers detected GRB 250702B, a source that produced re ... more
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RISTRETTO spectrograph cleared for Proxima b atmospheric hunt
Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Dec 09, 2025
The RISTRETTO project at the University of Geneva has reached a key stage, with several core elements of its high-precision spectrograph now prototyped and tested for observations of the nearby exop ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Two dimensional crystal reveals hexatic phase in real time
Vienna, 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
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Shaping quantum light expands options for future technologies
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 12, 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
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Roman space telescope passes key construction milestone ahead of launch window
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 12, 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
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Milky Way chemical map shows diverse paths to galactic evolution
London, UK (SPX) Dec 12, 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
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ESO signs MOSAIC deal for Extremely Large Telescope spectrograph
Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Dec 12, 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
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UChicago survey expands weak lensing test of the dark universe
Chicago IL (SPX) Dec 12, 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
TIME AND SPACE
CERN upbeat as China halts particle accelerator mega-project
Meyrin, Switzerland (AFP) Dec 9, 2025
The chief of the CERN physics laboratory says China's decision to pause its major particle accelerator project presents an "opportunity" to ensure Europe's rival plan goes ahead. ... more
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The bacteria that wont wake up found in spacecraft cleanrooms
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 09, 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
PHYSICS NEWS
Quantum fuzzy spacetime may reshape gravity theory
Berlin, 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
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NASA backs WHOI effort to read organic signals from ocean worlds
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 08, 2025
Ocean worlds such as Jupiter's icy moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus are emerging as prime locations to search for life beyond Earth, potentially including a second, independent origin of life ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Vast spinning galaxy filament mapped in nearby Universe
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 08, 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
TIME AND SPACE
KATRIN experiment rules out favored light sterile neutrino region
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 08, 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
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Cosmic rays drive urgent search for better protection before crewed trips to Mars
Norwich, 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
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Astronomers tighten expansion rate gap in universe measurements
Los 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
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