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Chance glimpse of star collapse offers new insight into black hole formationNew York (AFP) Feb 12, 2026 A watched pot never boils and love happens when you least expect it - turns out, the same logic applies to capturing a star as it collapses into a black hole. ... more  
Debris disc oddities point to hidden outer planetsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 13, 2026 Astronomers have obtained some of the most detailed images yet of debris discs around fully formed, so called teenage planetary systems, and say the irregular structures they see could reveal the pr ... more 
Pressure driven leakage from marine snow feeds deep ocean microbesParis, France (SPX) Feb 10, 2026 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 10, 2026 For many years, scientists viewed the deep ocean as a nutrient poor realm where microbes in the water column scraped by on scarce resources. New research from t ... more 
Hydrogen sulfide detected in distant gas giant exoplanets for the first timeLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 13, 2026 Hydrogen sulfide is what makes rotten eggs stink. But the discovery of this gas in the atmospheres of four distant, Jupiter-like planets is turning heads for a pleasant reason: It solves the mystery ... more |
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Swift observatory changes operations ahead of planned orbit reboostLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 13, 2026 NASA has adjusted operations of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory to reduce atmospheric drag and prepare the spacecraft for a planned orbit-raising mission. On Feb. 11 the mission team temporarily ... more 
JWST study links sulfur rich gas giants to core growth in distant HR 8799 systemLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2026 Gas giants are large planets composed mainly of hydrogen and helium with dense cores but no solid surfaces. Astronomers have long debated how the most massive of these worlds form and where the boun ... more 
Engineered microbes use light to build new moleculesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2026 Researchers are developing new ways to reprogram the cellular machinery of microbes such as yeast and bacteria so they can manufacture useful products for medicine and industry. A team at the Carl R ... more 
Photonic neurons push ultra-fast trading beyond electronic limitsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 13, 2026 In high frequency stock trading, the fastest systems typically capture the greatest advantage, putting a premium on shaving every possible fraction of a second from end to end latency. For years, th ... more |
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Quantum team reads information from robust Majorana qubits using quantum capacitanceBerlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 13, 2026 Researchers have demonstrated a method to read information stored in Majorana-based qubits using a technique known as quantum capacitance, marking what they describe as a crucial advance for topolog ... more  
Gravitational wave triad puts relativity under intense scrutinyBerlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 02, 2026 An international team working within the LIGO Virgo KAGRA collaboration has used the exceptionally clear gravitational wave signal GW250114 to carry out some of the most precise tests yet of Einstei ... more 
AI framework links gravitational waves and radio afterglowsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 02, 2026 When two neutron stars collide, they generate gravitational waves and light across the electromagnetic spectrum, from intense gamma ray flashes to faint radio signals that can persist for years. The ... more 
Quark wakes reveal early universe plasma flowed like a liquidLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 30, 2026 In its first instants, the universe formed a searing quark gluon plasma in which quarks and gluons moved at near light speed before cooling to build the protons and neutrons that dominate matter tod ... more |
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Muon study clarifies superconducting behavior in strontium ruthenateTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 10, 2026 Quantum materials and superconductors are inherently complex, and unconventional superconductors pose an even greater challenge because they fall outside standard theoretical descriptions. One promi ... more 
Experiments settle debate over how Molybdenum 93 isomer releases stored energyTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 08, 2026 A team at the Institute of Modern Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and collaborators has identified the dominant mechanism that releases energy stored in the nuclear isomer Molybdenum 93m. ... more 
One dimensional anyons offer tunable quantum statisticsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 05, 2026 Physicists have traditionally divided all elementary particles in three dimensional space into just two categories, bosons and fermions, depending on how systems of identical particles behave when t ... more 
Dark matter core may drive Milky Way centerLondon, UK (SPX) Feb 08, 2026 Our Milky Way galaxy may not host a supermassive black hole at its center but instead an enormous concentration of dark matter that exerts an equivalent gravitational influence on nearby stars and g ... more |
'The beacons were lit!' A system to detect and map merging black holesNew Haven CT (SPX) Feb 08, 2026 An international collaboration of astrophysicists that includes researchers from Yale has created and tested a detection system that uses gravitational waves to map out the locations of merging blac ... more 
Runaway black hole jet outshines legendary death starLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 08, 2026 A supermassive black hole that shredded a nearby star is blasting out a jet of energy that has kept brightening for four years, in one of the most powerful events ever recorded in the universe. ... more 
Lab made cosmic dust experiment reveals paths to life chemistrySydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 06, 2026 A PhD candidate at the University of Sydney has recreated a small slice of cosmic chemistry in the laboratory by manufacturing carbon rich dust under conditions that mimic space. Working in the Scho ... more 
Survey of 80 near Earth asteroids sharpens view of their origins and risksTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 06, 2026 Near Earth asteroids are small bodies whose orbits cross or come close to Earth, making them key tracers of Solar System formation and evolution as well as potential impact hazards for our planet. ... more |
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Einstein effect clears planets from tight double star systemsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2026 Of the more than 4,500 stars known to have planets, one puzzling statistic stands out. Even though nearly all stars are expected to have planets and most stars form in pairs, planets that orbit both ... more 
Exploding primordial black hole model may link extreme neutrino and dark matterAmherst MD (SPX) Feb 05, 2026 In 2023, a subatomic particle called a neutrino crashed into Earth with such a high amount of energy that it should have been impossible. In fact, there are no known sources anywhere in the universe ... more 
Flat dark matter sheet solves local galaxy motion puzzleBerlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 03, 2026 Astronomers have used advanced computer simulations to show that the matter distribution just beyond the Local Group is organized in a vast, flattened structure of dark matter that extends tens of m ... more 
Webb sharpens view of dark matter shaping the cosmosLondon, UK (SPX) Jan 28, 2026 Scientists have produced the most detailed map yet of the dark matter that threads through the Universe, revealing how this invisible component has guided the formation of galaxies, stars and planet ... more |
AI tool mines Hubble archive for hundreds of strange cosmic objectsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2026 A team of astronomers has used a new artificial intelligence assisted technique to uncover rare astronomical phenomena in archived data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. They sifted through nearly ... more 
New analysis sharpens view of cosmic birefringence and universe symmetryLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2026 A research team has developed a method to reduce uncertainties in measurements of cosmic birefringence, a subtle rotation in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background that may hold clues t ... more 
Runaway massive stars mapped across the Milky WayMadrid, Spain (SPX) Jan 29, 2026 Astronomers have carried out the most extensive observational study so far of massive runaway stars in the Milky Way, combining detailed measurements of how fast these stars move, how rapidly they s ... more 
Laser method proposed to extend muon lifetime for science applicationsLondon, UK (SPX) Jan 28, 2026 Unless they work in particle physics or a related discipline, most people are unlikely to have encountered muons, elementary particles that resemble electrons but are around 200 times heavier and in ... more |
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Hydrogen nuclei experiment sharpens view of quarks inside matterLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 26, 2026 The lightest element in the universe is helping nuclear physicists probe the inner structure of matter with new precision. At the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Fa ... more 
Metal rich winds detected in giant dusty cloud around distant starLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 26, 2026 Sweeping winds of vaporized metals have been detected in a massive cloud of gas and dust that dimmed the light of a distant star for nearly nine months, offering a rare view of late stage planetary ... more 
Sulfur ring molecule in galactic cloud links space chemistry to lifeBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 26, 2026 Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, working with colleagues at the Centro de Astrobiologia in Spain, have identified the largest sulfur-bearing molecule yet seen in ... more 
Icy cycles may have driven early protocell evolutionTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 26, 2026 Modern cells rely on intricate molecular machinery and genetic programs to grow and divide, but the earliest protocells were likely simple lipid-bound compartments whose behavior depended mainly on ... more |
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