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Can gravitational fields break and reconnect? Einstein's equations suggest they can
Recent theoretical studies reveal that gravitational fields can break and reconnect in space, mirroring solar magnetic lines.
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Inside the Supermassive Debate Over the James Webb Telescope’s ‘Little Red Dots’
Astronomers are debating the origin of 'little red dots' discovered by the James Webb Telescope, weighing stellar collisions against black hole activity.
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Gaze at the Cosmic Dawn in Dizzying Detail
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Black holes spinning near maximum rate could split in two, calculations suggest
Calculations suggest that black holes spinning near their maximum possible rate could split into two separate entities.
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Milky Way's disk grew 'upside down,' with younger stars forming in ever-thinner layers
Recent studies reveal the Milky Way's disk grew upside down, forming a flat shape over billions of years.
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Neutrinos Are Everywhere. Now What?
Recent coverage highlights academic institutions celebrating their contributions to Nobel Prize-winning neutrino research.
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Scientists Simulated Solar Explosions in The Lab
Lab‑born nanoflares may finally illuminate why the Sun’s outer atmosphere burns hotter than its surface.
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Lumina simulation brings the early universe to life on a record-breaking scale
Smithsonian scientists launch Lumina, a record-breaking supercomputer simulation recreating the first 2 billion years of the early universe.
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Black hole observations uncover evidence of solar storm–like magnetic eruptions
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A magnetar can be born when two neutron stars touch
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Scientists discover that some of the universe's biggest explosions may have never happened at all
Recent scientific findings challenge the existence of hypernovae, suggesting these massive cosmic explosions may never have occurred.
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Vera Rubin Observatory spots the largest ultra-fast spinning asteroid yet
The Vera Rubin Observatory has detected the largest ultra-fast spinning asteroid known to science, challenging existing physical models.
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Our Solar System May Be Destroyed 100 Times Faster Than We Thought
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Undergraduate student may have solved puzzle regarding isolated galaxies that have stopped producing stars
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1,000-mile-long cloud that forms and vanishes on Mars every day obeys 'exotic physics' never seen on Earth
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Nobel winner Halzen says years of October 'misery' finally over
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Francis Halzen wins Nobel Prize in physics for work on high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin
Francis Halzen has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering research on high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.
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Tiny ancient black holes may live in a five-dimensional world
Coverage explores theories that tiny ancient black holes might inhabit a hidden fifth dimension.
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Scientists find a surprising clue to why the universe’s expansion doesn’t add up
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Milky Way may have begun as thousands of galaxies, new simulations suggest
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Scientists connect cosmic fingerprints of the universe's first stars with MEGATRON simulation
Recent scientific simulations connect the universe's first stars and cosmic dawn to visible fingerprints today.
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Supermassive black holes 'kill' their host galaxies using plasma jets as their murder weapons
Recent studies reveal how supermassive black holes halt star formation in host galaxies.
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The solar system could be destroyed much sooner than we thought, scientists say
New scientific findings suggest the solar system is terminally unstable and faces destruction far sooner than previous estimates indicated.
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Hydrogen's distant glow opens new way to investigate dark energy
The CHIME telescope has detected an ancient hydrogen signal, providing a potential new method for scientists to investigate the mystery of dark energy.
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Black hole jets reach far beyond galaxies' visible edges, potentially deciding their fate
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JWST finds early galaxies were already seeding the universe with heavy elements
JWST discoveries reveal early galaxies enriched and dispersed heavy elements just 500 million years after the Big Bang.
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NASA Selects Far-Infrared Telescope as First in New Mission Class
NASA has chosen a far-infrared space telescope named PRIMA as the inaugural mission in a new astrophysics probe class.
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Milky Way's first microblazar may produce fastest particles in the galaxy
Astronomers have identified the first microblazar in the Milky Way, a black hole directing a high-energy jet of particles directly toward Earth.
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Astronomers Detect Radio Signals Coming Directly From an Exoplanet For The First Time
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Flavor-changing 'ghost particles' may reveal which stars go supernova
Neutrino flavor swaps could soon tell astronomers which massive stars will explode as supernovae and which will become black holes.
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People think Earth dies when the Sun becomes a red giant in five billion years — the more likely end is a billion years from now, when a star already 30 percent brighter than at birth pushes CO₂ too low for C3 plants, then a moist greenhouse strips the oc
Astrophysicists outline a chilling chronology for Earth's destruction, pointing to a timeline well before the Sun's red giant phase.
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Astrophysics study suggests Venus may have swallowed its moon
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Scientists discover mysterious new X-ray objects 'unlike any they have seen before'
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Strange 'fast radio bursts' across the universe could help solve major cosmic mysteries: 'It's only the beginning'
Astronomers are utilizing fast radio bursts as cosmic backlights to map missing ordinary matter and investigate the mysteries of dark matter.
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Astronomers discover two stars that joined together to form a binary system just 60 years ago
Astronomers have captured the rare, real-time formation of a massive binary star system that joined together only 60 years ago.
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This 'impossible' black hole merger may be explained by a warp in spacetime
Astronomers propose gravitational lensing as a new explanation for an impossible, record-breaking black hole merger.
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How long did it take to make the moon? Maybe just 5 hours, new simulations suggest
New simulations suggest the Moon may have formed almost intact in just five hours following a giant cosmic impact with Earth.
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NASA's newly launched Roman Space Telescope will 'directly' image exoplanets. But what does that mean?
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has launched, promising to deliver the largest images of space and directly image exoplanets.
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Astrophysicist explains terrifying timeline for how Earth will be destroyed
An astrophysicist has sparked widespread discussion by outlining a timeline for the inevitable destruction of Earth and the extinction of humanity.
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Big supernova dataset challenges dark energy theory
A massive new catalog of 2,884 supernovae is challenging the established theory of dark energy and the nature of cosmic acceleration.
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For years, mysterious little red dots kept appearing in James Webb images of the early universe — astronomers now think one is a “black hole star,” a growing black hole hidden inside a star-like gas cocoon the size of the solar system
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified a 'black hole star,' potentially explaining mysterious red dots in the early universe.
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Do black holes have hidden hair? Scientists find a new way to check
Physicists have developed a new method to detect black hole 'hair' by analyzing the ringdown waveforms of gravitational waves.
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Betelgeuse's atmosphere is becoming spotty and asymmetric—and a nearby companion could be shaping the pattern
New observations reveal Betelgeuse is developing an asymmetric, spotty atmosphere shaped by a potential nearby companion.
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How did the infant sun form? Scientists get surprising new insights from 4.6-billion-year-old space dust
Analysis of a 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite found in Antarctica reveals that magnetic forces played a critical role in the formation of the infant sun.
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Searching for the invisible: UAlbany researchers report they may have found dark matter
Researchers at UAlbany report a potential breakthrough in the long-standing scientific search for the elusive substance known as dark matter.
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Scientists make potential breakthrough in search for dark matter
British scientists and international research teams report a suspicious signal and surprising results in the ongoing global search for dark matter.
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Scientists May Have Proved a Century-Old Theory That the Vacuum of Space Isn’t Really Empty
Recent observations of a powerful magnetar provide the strongest evidence yet that the vacuum of space acts as a prism rather than a true void.
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Milky Way's own gravity can mimic dark matter clues, stellar stream simulations suggest
New computer simulations suggest that thin stellar streams in galaxies can be used to locate and measure elusive dark matter.
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Scientists Just Made A Serious Breakthrough. Now This Nobel Prize Winner Thinks We’ve Mapped The Universe All Wrong
Researchers at Yonsei University are challenging established cosmic models following a new paper on the acceleration of the universe.
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James Webb Space Telescope observes 72 stars and finds planet formation is a race against time
The James Webb Space Telescope reveals that giant planets must acquire their atmospheres quickly before cosmic winds deplete their gas-rich discs.
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Scientists Discover Vast Underground 'Anomaly' on Mars
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The bubbling surface of doomed supergiant star Betelgeuse has been revealed like never before
New ALMA Observatory data reveals long-lived hotspots and unexpected structures on the bubbling surface of the doomed supergiant star Betelgeuse.
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How the sun's galactic journey and superflare-filled youth shaped Earth's climate
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The universe is full of strange ‘little red dots’. A new study shines light on their real nature
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Astronomers Use Rare Ultra-Magnetic Star to Crack a Quantum Mystery
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What happens when a galaxy's supermassive black hole turns off? These dying radio galaxies could show us
Recent coverage examines dying radio galaxies to reveal how supermassive black hole jets turn off.
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A PhD student in Sydney just found a “Rosetta Stone” for years of unexplained radio bursts from the Milky Way: a dead star is stripping material from its companion in a 1.4-hour orbit, giving astronomers their clearest look yet at what produces at least s
A University of Sydney PhD student discovers a rare binary star system explaining long-standing Milky Way radio bursts.
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James Webb Space Telescope Discovers New Type Of Star Powered By Black Holes Instead Of Fusion
JWST spots a solar-system‑wide, 100‑billion‑fold brighter object powered by a black hole, hinting at a brand‑new class of star.
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Einstein Probe catches rare X-ray flash from an exploding star
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Is empty space really empty? This magnetic star may finally solve a 90-year-old mystery
A newly identified magnetic star is being positioned as a potential solution to a scientific mystery regarding the nature of empty space spanning nine decades.