Universe
Simple collapse may build cosmic snowman worlds
Far beyond Neptune, the Kuiper Belt holds icy, largely untouched planetesimals that preserve conditions from the dawn of the solar system.
Time And Space
Runaway black hole jet outshines legendary death star
The outburst comes from a tidal disruption event designated AT2018hyz, in which a star strayed too close to a black hole and was torn apart by intense gravitational forces in a process astronomers describe as spaghettification.
Time And Space
Experiments settle debate over how Molybdenum 93 isomer releases stored energy
Nuclear isomers are long lived excited states of atomic nuclei that can store large amounts of energy.
Time And Space
'The beacons were lit!' A system to detect and map merging black holes
Such a map would provide a vital new way to explore and understand astronomy and physics, just as X-rays and radio waves did in earlier eras, the researchers say.
Space & Missions
AAC Clyde Space adds Sedna satellites to boost maritime data services
The decision to move ahead with Sedna-3 and Sedna-4 follows growing demand for satellite-delivered maritime data from customers that rely on timely information for operations and safety at sea.
Stellar Chemistry
Dark matter core may drive Milky Way center
For decades astronomers have interpreted the extreme orbits of a group of stars near the center of the Milky Way, known as the S stars, as evidence for a…
Science & Engineering
Slow mantle flow built Antarctica gravity low over tens of millions of years
A new study by researchers at the University of Florida and the Paris Institute of Earth Physics reconstructs how this Antarctic gravity low developed over tens of millions of years.
Science & Engineering
AI framework links gravitational waves and radio afterglows
A collaboration led by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, working with Johns Hopkins University, the University of…
Time And Space
From Mars to Exoplanets How Astronomers Compare Worlds Across Impossible Scales
Distance within space is handled similarly through the Astronomical Unit (AU). One AU represents the average distance between the Earth and the Sun, roughly 93 million miles.
Intern Daily
Nigeria probes Temu over personal data misuse
Temu, which has scored meteoric growth in recent years on the back of its cut-price offers, has been regularly criticised for its handling of its clients' personal data.
Stellar Chemistry
Flat dark matter sheet solves local galaxy motion puzzle
For almost a century, observations have shown that most galaxies recede from the Milky Way, supporting the picture of an expanding universe and the Big Bang.
Stellar Chemistry
Researchers probe dark matter stars that resemble black holes
Physicist Carlos Herdeiro of the University of Aveiro in Portugal leads NewFunFiCO, an EU-funded project examining whether certain gravitational wave detections could originate from theoretical compact objects rather than conventional black holes.
Iraq Wars
Where does Iraq stand as US turns up heat on Iran?
After decades of conflict and chaos, Iraq has recently regained a sense of normalcy, yet its politics is haunted by the struggle to balance relations with its two main allies, Iran and the United States.
Stellar Chemistry
Runaway massive stars mapped across the Milky Way
Runaway stars are stars that travel through space at unusually high speeds and gradually drift away from the regions where they formed.
Universe
Einstein effect clears planets from tight double star systems
Of the more than 6,000 extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, confirmed to date - most of them found by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) - only 14 are observed to orbit binary stars.
About Us
French duo reach Shanghai, completing year-and-a-half walk
Tired but delighted, Loic Voisot and Benjamin Humblot embraced as they stood by the river on the Bund promenade, the Chinese financial hub's distinctive skyline glittering in the background.