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Fluorescent caves could explain how life persists in extraterrestrial environments![]() ![]() San Diego CA (SPX) Mar 26, 2025 Deep below Earth's surface, rock and mineral formations lay hidden with a secret brilliance. Under a black light, the chemicals fossilized within shine in brilliant hues of pink, blue and green. Scientists are using these fluorescent features to understand how the caves formed and how life is supported in extreme environments, which may reveal how life could persist in faraway places, like Jupiter's icy moon Europa. The researchers will present their results at the spring meeting of the American C ... read more |
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![]() Tallahassee, FL (SPX) Mar 25, 2025 For decades, people have been trying to directly detect dark matter: the missing mass in our universe. Now, research from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering is making possible a new, super-sensitiv ... more ![]() ![]() Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 26, 2025 An international research collaboration, including scientists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, has identified a new super-Earth circli ... more ![]() ![]() Rome, Italy (SPX) Mar 24, 2025 Quantum gravity, the elusive framework that would merge general relativity with quantum mechanics, remains one of modern physics' greatest unsolved puzzles. One of the most promising candidates for ... more ![]() ![]() Sydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 25, 2025 AI tools are revolutionizing the way astronomers study celestial bodies, offering new levels of precision and automation in classifying stars. A global research collaboration recently demonstrated h ... more |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 26, 2025 China's space station will soon host an unusual biological subject for experimentation: the planarian, a species of flatworm distinguished by its extraordinary regenerative powers, according to a re ... more |
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![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 24, 2025 Data from the European Space Agency's Euclid satellite is already delivering significant scientific insights, even though the survey has only just begun. Launched in July 2023, Euclid is embarking o ... more ![]() ![]() Columbus OH (SPX) Mar 21, 2025 The discovery of dark energy, nearly 30 years ago, was already the biggest surprise of my scientific lifetime," said David Weinberg, a professor of astronomy at Ohio State who also contributed to th ... more ![]() ![]() Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 20, 2025 The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is mapping millions of celestial objects to better understand dark energy: the mysterious driver of our universe's accelerating expansion. This week, ... more ![]() ![]() Paris (AFP) Mar 20, 2025 Oxygen has been detected in the most distant galaxy ever discovered, surprised astronomers said Thursday, offering further evidence that stars in the early universe matured far quicker than had been thought possible. ... more |
![]() Sydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 19, 2025 The SKA Observatory has released the inaugural image from its Australian-based SKA-Low telescope, marking a pivotal moment in the project's journey to deliver an unprecedented view of the cosmos. ... more ![]() ![]() ![]() Available on Amazon Books |
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![]() Washington DC (UPI) Mar 19, 2025 The European Space Agency's spacecraft Euclid on Wednesday released a treasure trove of new data in its quest to map and unlock mysteries of what scientists call the "dark universe." ... more ![]() ![]() Santiago (AFP) Mar 19, 2025 Chile said Wednesday it was reviewing an agreement for the construction of a Chinese astronomical observatory on its soil, a project that has drawn criticism from Washington as it jostles with Beijing for influence in Latin America. ... more ![]() ![]() Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 19, 2025 The complexity of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly neural networks modeled on the human brain, often sparks apprehension due to their opaque nature. While the societal implications of such ... more ![]() ![]() Paris (AFP) Mar 19, 2025 Dark energy, the mysterious force thought to be driving the ever-faster expansion of the universe, appears to be changing over time, according to new observations released Wednesday. ... more |
![]() Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 19, 2025 Unusual geological formations discovered in the deserts of Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia suggest that an unidentified microorganism once inhabited marble and limestone in these regions. Researcher ... more ![]() ![]() Paris (AFP) Mar 19, 2025 Europe's Euclid space telescope, which is on a mission to shed light on the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy, released its first data Wednesday with a little help from volunteers and artificial intelligence. ... more ![]() ![]() Princeton NJ (SPX) Mar 19, 2025 New research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe's infancy - the earliest cosmic time yet accessible to humans. Measuring ligh ... more ![]() ![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 19, 2025 Observing ultraviolet (UV) light in space opens a window to some of the universe's most energetic phenomena. Yet, the efficient capture of UV photons remains a challenge due to their limited interac ... more |
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![]() Sydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 19, 2025 An international collaboration led in part by Swinburne University of Technology has uncovered a massive spiral disk galaxy from the early universe, providing new insights into galactic formation. ... more ![]() ![]() Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 18, 2025 Researchers in Japan have leveraged advanced artificial intelligence to explore the distant regions of our galaxy, revealing previously undetected cosmic structures. Led by Osaka Metropolitan Univer ... more ![]() ![]() Baltimore MD (SPX) Mar 18, 2025 The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ... more ![]() ![]() Paris, France (SPX) Mar 17, 2025 Astronomers have identified two planets orbiting the star TOI-1453, located approximately 250 light years from Earth in the constellation Draco. The system, which includes a super-Earth and a sub-Ne ... more |
![]() ![]() Available on Amazon Books ![]() ![]() Sydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 17, 2025 Using advanced magnetic field instrumentation, scientists have for the first time experimentally observed Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of bound magnon pairs in a spin-1 triangular lattice. This ... more |
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![]() Brest, France (AFP) Mar 17, 2025 Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight? ... more ![]() ![]() Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 14, 2025 Blazars are a class of active galaxies that direct powerful jets of ionized matter toward Earth. Typically, astronomers categorize them into distinct classes based on the characteristics of their em ... more ![]() ![]() Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 14, 2025 Observing distant stars and galaxies comes with a challenge: how much of what we see is affected by cosmic dust? The presence of interstellar dust clouds can make celestial objects appear redder and ... more ![]() ![]() Washington DC (SPX) Mar 14, 2025 The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in partnership with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), has developed StarBurst, a small satellite (SmallSat) instrument for NASA's StarBurst Multim ... more |
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