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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
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
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
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
SPHERE debris disk survey maps hidden asteroid and comet belts in young planetary systemsBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 03, 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 |
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JWST spots early Milky Way style spiral galaxy AlaknandaLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 03, 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 |
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
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
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
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 |
Quantum fuzzy spacetime may reshape gravity theoryBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 04, 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 ![]() |
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
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
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 |
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 |
End of mission for Atacama Cosmology Telescope opens new avenues in cosmologyParis, France (SPX) Nov 25, 2025 The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) has concluded nearly two decades of operation, closing a chapter in observational cosmology and initiating new directions for research. The ACT Collaboration ha ... more
Optical technique enables generation of hypersound waves in perovskite crystalsBerlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 25, 2025 Researchers from TU Dortmund University, University of Wurzburg, and Le Mans Universite have demonstrated the optical generation of shear hypersound pulses with large amplitudes in metal halide pero ... more
Advances in structured light and machine intelligence reshape photonicsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 24, 2025 Scientists are now using light in new, more complex ways, enabled by artificial intelligence (AI). Structured light - light that is carefully shaped and controlled to have complex features - can be ... more
Astrophysics study sets new bounds on speed of light across photon energiesBerlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 24, 2025 In 1887, Michelson and Morley conducted a pivotal experiment, searching for evidence that Earth's motion could alter the speed of light. Their null result was instrumental for Einstein, who soon pro ... more |
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Efficient quantum process tomography for enabling scalable optical quantum computingTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 24, 2025 Optical quantum computers are gaining attention as a next-generation computing technology with high speed and scalability. However, accurately characterizing complex optical processes, where multipl ... more |
White dwarf magnetic field study reveals inner accretion dynamicsCambridge, MA (SPX) Nov 21, 2025 Some 200 light years from Earth, the core of a dead star is circling a larger star in a macabre cosmic dance. The dead star is a type of white dwarf that exerts a powerful magnetic field as it pulls ... more
Moss spores withstand long term exposure outside space stationTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 21, 2025 Researchers have demonstrated that moss sporophytes can withstand nine months of direct exposure to outer space and remain reproductively viable upon return to Earth. The study, published November 2 ... more
NASA's Mars Spacecraft Capture Images of Comet 3I/ATLASPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 21, 2025 Two orbiters and a rover captured images of the interstellar object - from the closest location any of the agency's spacecraft may get - that could reveal new details. At the start of October, ... more
A new angle of study for unveiling black hole secretsSt. Louis, MO (SPX) Nov 20, 2025 An international collaboration of physicists including researchers at Washington University in St. Louis has made measurements to better understand how matter falls into black holes and how enormous ... more |
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