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  Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 04, 2024 NASA is advancing autonomous exploration to tackle one of its foremost goals - investigating the potential for life and habitability on ocean worlds. These missions focus on targets like Jupiter's Europa and Saturn's Enceladus, where subsurface liquid water could support life. Communication delays, extreme environments, and limited energy resources necessitate autonomous robotic systems for such exploration. To meet these challenges, NASA initiated projects like the Ocean Worlds Lander Autonomy Te ... read more |
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A star's surface reveals chaotic nonperiodic dynamoBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 05, 2024 A 16-year study conducted by the STELLA observatory in Tenerife has unveiled unprecedented insights into the chaotic nature of star spot behavior on XX Trianguli. Using advanced robotic spectroscopy ... more  
BAE Systems completes key testing for NASA's SPHEREx Observatory missionLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2024 BAE Systems (LON: BA) has finalized environmental testing for NASA's Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) Observatory. This mission, ... more  
New gravitational wave maps reveal hidden black holes and cosmic structuresMelbourne, Australia (SPX) Dec 03, 2024 Astronomers from Swinburne University of Technology have led an international effort to produce the most detailed maps of gravitational waves in the universe. This research has also resulted in the ... more 
Searching for evidence of primordial black holes in planets and everyday materialsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2024 The formation of black holes is often associated with massive stars collapsing under their own gravity. However, new research suggests the chaotic conditions of the early universe may have enabled t ... more |
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Webb Telescope unveils unexpected details in Spiderweb ProtoclusterParis, France (SPX) Dec 05, 2024 A team of international astronomers has used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to uncover previously hidden galaxies in the Spiderweb protocluster. These findings challenge earlier assumpt ... more |
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Webb highlights spiral arms of galaxy NGC 2090 in infrared detailParis, France (SPX) Nov 28, 2024 Featured in this month's image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope is the spiral galaxy NGC 2090, situated in the constellation Columba. Using data from Webb's MIRI and NIRCam instrumen ... more 
A caving expedition highlights the complexities of field researchLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 04, 2024 Lab-based research forms the foundation of modern scientific inquiry, but it often falls short in replicating real-world experiences. This limitation is particularly pronounced in fields like cognit ... more 
Unveiling a hydrogen-controlled nano-switch in electron transport proteinsOsaka, Japan (SPX) Dec 04, 2024 Researchers at Osaka University have unveiled a groundbreaking mechanism that controls the electric potential of a universal "electron carrier" protein involved in redox reactions - processes critic ... more 
Scientists examine role of iron sulfides in life's origins at early Earth hot springsSydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 04, 2024 A recent study has revealed how iron sulfides may have influenced the emergence of life on early Earth by catalyzing the formation of prebiotic organic molecules in terrestrial hot springs. This res ... more |
'Spooky action' at a very short distance: Scientists map out quantum entanglement in protonsUpton NY (SPX) Dec 03, 2024 Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators have a new way to use data from high-energy particle smashups to peer inside protons. Their appro ... more  Available on Amazon Books |
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Getting a deeper understanding of quark mixingParis, France (SPX) Dec 05, 2024 The Standard Model of particle physics thrives on the idea that good things come in threes, featuring three distinct generations of elementary particles. Quarks exemplify this pattern, existing in s ... more 
Controlling atomic-scale reactions marks a major leap forwardLondon, UK (SPX) Dec 04, 2024 Scientists at the University of Bath have made a significant advance in nanotechnology, unveiling a method to control atomic-level chemical reactions. This achievement is expected to enhance fundame ... more 
Seeing farther into the universe with enhanced gravitational-wave detectionLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2024 Researchers at Louisiana State University have unveiled a promising method to refine gravitational-wave detection through optical spring tracking. This innovation may enable scientists to observe de ... more 
China advances construction of massive steerable radio telescopeSydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 28, 2024 The construction of the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope is underway in Huadian, Jilin Province, northeast China. The groundbreaking project, set to enhance scientific understanding o ... more |
HESS Observatory identifies highest-energy cosmic-ray electrons and positrons yet observedBerlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 26, 2024 Scientists from CNRS, a German university consortium, and the Max-Planck-Institut fur Kernphysik working at the H.E.S.S. Observatory in Namibia have detected cosmic-ray electrons and positrons with ... more  
NASA Voyager 1 returns to full operations after communication issueLos Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 27, 2024 NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has successfully resumed normal operations following a communication disruption last month. The issue arose when the spacecraft unexpectedly switched from its primary X-b ... more 
Discovery Alert: a 'Hot Neptune' in a Tight OrbitPasadena CA (SPX) Nov 27, 2024 A Neptune-sized planet, TOI-3261 b, makes a scorchingly close orbit around its host star. Only the fourth object of its kind ever found, the planet could reveal clues as to how planets such as these ... more 
Final data and undiscovered images from NASA's NEOWISELos Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 27, 2024 While NASA's NEOWISE telescope ended its journey through space on Nov. 1, 2024, the team at IPAC, a science center at Caltech, was working on one further gift from the prolific mission. The fi ... more |
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China FAST telescope discovers over 1000 pulsarsSydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 27, 2024 China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), the largest and most sensitive filled-aperture radio telescope in the world, has identified over 1,000 new pulsars since it bega ... more 
Astronomers identify potential source of mysterious stellar signalsSydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 27, 2024 Researchers at the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have made a record-setting discovery while uncovering clues to a rare cosmic phenomenon kno ... more 
Team identifies how interstellar medium impacts pulsar signalsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 27, 2024 A new study led by Sofia Sheikh of the SETI Institute has revealed how pulsar signals - emissions from the spinning remnants of massive stars - are distorted as they traverse the interstellar medium ... more 
Novel supernova observations grant astronomers a peek into the cosmic pastColumbus OH (SPX) Nov 26, 2024 An international team of researchers has made new observations of an unusual supernova, finding the most metal-poor stellar explosion ever observed. This rare supernova, called 2023ufx, origin ... more |
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XRISM mission looks deeply into 'hidden' stellar systemGreenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 26, 2024 The Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) observatory has captured the most detailed portrait yet of gases flowing within Cygnus X-3, one of the most studied sources in the X-ray ... more |
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New bar set for simulating the universe in the Exascale eraOak Ridge TN (SPX) Nov 26, 2024 The universe just got a whole lot bigger - or at least in the world of computer simulations, that is. In early November, researchers at the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory u ... more 
PolyU conducts successful catalyst material experiments in Low Earth OrbitSydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 26, 2024 The Shijian-19 satellite, China's first reusable and returnable satellite, has completed its mission and returned to Earth, carrying a variety of experimental payloads. Among these was the Hong Kong ... more 
All-optical nonlinear Compton scattering achieved with multi-petawatt laser producing ultra-bright gamma raysTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 26, 2024 In a major advancement for strong field physics, researchers from the Institute for Basic Science's Center for Relativistic Laser Science (CoReLS) in Korea have successfully demonstrated nonlinear C ... more 
Attosecond X-ray pulses at high repetition rates revolutionize atomic imagingBerlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 26, 2024 A collaborative team of scientists from European XFEL and DESY has achieved a significant milestone in X-ray science by producing high-power attosecond hard X-ray pulses at unprecedented megahertz r ... more |
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