Read More Scince News Space 8 months ago Could Black Hole Shadows Reveal Limits of Relativity? Scientists are using black hole shadow images and advanced simulations to test Einstein’s general relativity. Next-generation telescopes could reveal subtle deviations or confirm relativity at extreme gravity scales.
Read More Scince News Space 8 months ago GJ 251 c: A Nearby Super-Earth Poised to Reveal Life Astronomers have identified GJ 251 c, a nearby super-Earth in the habitable zone. Using two decades of radial-velocity data and instruments such as HPF and NEID, the planet is a key target for future atmospheric searches.
Read More Scince News Space 8 months ago 10 Trillion Suns: The Most Powerful Black Hole Flare Astronomers have detected the most powerful and distant black-hole flare ever observed: a 10-trillion-Sun tidal disruption event from 10 billion light-years away. The eruption reshapes TDE searches and models.
Read More Scince News Space 8 months ago A Giant Ripple Sweeps Across the Milky Way Disk Today Gaia's stellar motions reveal a large, outward-moving vertical wave in the Milky Way's disk. Young stars trace a ripple that may come from a satellite collision or other galactic disturbance.
Read More Scince News Space 8 months ago When Black Holes Broke the Rules: Early Universe Titans New simulations show the early Universe allowed brief super-Eddington black hole growth but only up to ~10,000 solar masses, leaving billion-solar-mass quasars unexplained and pointing to massive seed scenarios.
Read More Scince News Space 8 months ago Ozone Recovery Progress: Antarctic Hole Shrinks in 2024 The WMO reports a smaller Antarctic ozone hole in 2024, attributing progress to the Montreal Protocol and long-term monitoring. Recovery timelines point to global repair by mid-century and full Antarctic recovery by 2066.
Read More Scince News Space 8 months ago Pentagon May Fund $2B SpaceX Satellites for 'Golden Dome' The Pentagon may award SpaceX a $2B contract to build up to 600 satellites for the "Golden Dome" missile‑defense program. The project aims for space‑based tracking and military communications, raising cost and policy questions.
Read More Scince News Space 8 months ago Three Earth-size Worlds Orbiting Dual Suns: TOI-2267 TESS and ground observatories uncovered three Earth-size planets orbiting both stars of the compact binary TOI-2267. This rare configuration challenges models of planet formation and opens new paths for atmospheric and dynamical studies.
Read More Scince News Space 8 months ago Photonic Lantern Sharpens Telescope Views of Stars Now A UCLA-led team used a photonic lantern on the Subaru Telescope to capture unprecedented high-resolution images of a star's disk, revealing a surprising asymmetry and opening new avenues for high-resolution ground-based astronomy.
Read More Scince News Space 8 months ago Cosmic Bat Nebula: Newborn Stars Light Up a Haunted Cloud A wide-field VST image reveals a red, bat-shaped nebula (RCW 94/95) 10,000 light-years away. Optical Hα and infrared VISTA data expose active star formation, dusty filaments and stellar feedback.
Read More Scince News Space 8 months ago Webb Unveils the Red Spider Nebula's Hidden Heart James Webb Telescope images of NGC 6537, the Red Spider Nebula, reveal a dust-enshrouded core, massive molecular-hydrogen lobes and jets that suggest a hidden companion shaping the dying star.
Read More Scince News Space 8 months ago New Radio Mosaic Reveals the Milky Way in Vivid Color A new GLEAM/GLEAM-X radio mosaic from the Murchison Widefield Array maps the Milky Way at 72–231 MHz, revealing magnetic fields, supernova remnants and star-forming regions in vivid radio colour.
Read More Scince News Space 8 months ago How AI Saved and Sharpened the $10B Webb Telescope Australian researchers used AI to remove detector-caused blurring in the James Webb Space Telescope's AMI instrument, restoring sharp imaging of exoplanets, Io and distant stars without any hardware repairs.
Read More Scince News Space 8 months ago Jupiter’s Early Growth and the Meteorite Delay Revealed New Rice University simulations show Jupiter's early growth created rings and pressure traps that gave rise to a second generation of planetesimals, explaining why many chondritic meteorites formed millions of years after the first solids.
Read More Scince News Space 8 months ago Neutrino Clues: How Matter Survived the Big Bang Era NOvA and T2K scientists combined data to probe neutrino oscillations and CP violation, offering stronger hints why matter, not antimatter, survived the Big Bang. IU researchers played key roles.
Read More Scince News Space 8 months ago First Glimpse of a Young Sun’s Super-Eruption Captured Astronomers observed a two-temperature coronal mass ejection from EK Draconis, a young Sun-like star. Hot plasma at ~100,000 K and cool gas at ~10,000 K reveal how stellar eruptions could shape planetary atmospheres and habitability.
Read More Scince News Space 8 months ago Did Cold War Nuclear Tests Trigger Mysterious Sky Lights? A reanalysis of the 1949–1958 Palomar sky survey shows transient lights cluster around above-ground nuclear tests and UAP reports, suggesting some mid-20th-century anomalies were real atmospheric or anthropogenic events.
Read More Scince News Space 8 months ago Dry Ice Sandworms: How CO2 Carves Sinuous Martian Gullies Laboratory simulations show dry ice (CO2) can burrow through Martian dune sand as it sublimates, reproducing sinuous gullies with levees and terminal pockets — a water-free explanation for seasonal features.
Read More Scince News Space 8 months ago Why It Rains on the Sun: New Clues from Solar Plasma New simulations from the University of Hawai‘i reveal that time-variable concentrations of heavy elements in the solar corona can trigger rapid coronal rain, reshaping our view of coronal heating and plasma dynamics.
Read More Scince News Space 8 months ago Frozen Building Blocks of Life Found in Another Galaxy Astronomers using JWST detected complex organic molecules frozen in ice around a protostar in the Large Magellanic Cloud, including acetic acid — the first such icy detection beyond the Milky Way.
