Voyager 1 will be one light-day, 16 billion miles, from us next year
It takes a beam of light a single day to travel 16.1 billion miles, a distance known as…
New York City Council passes landmark AI oversight package
New York City Council on Tuesday unanimously passed the GUARD Act, a sweeping package of bills designed to…
India Holds Upper Hand, Trump On Backfoot – What Big Move Could Come Next?
New Delhi: India has flipped the script in trade negotiations with the United States. Despite Washington imposing tariffs…
Balloon telescope captures new details of matter swirling around black holes
The balloon-borne telescope XL-Calibur was launched on a six-day flight from the Swedish Space Corporation’s Esrange Space Center…
Earth’s earliest life 3.3 billion years ago revealed by faint biosignatures
MSU researcher Katie Maloney contributed samples of rare, exceptionally well-preserved seaweed fossils (e.g., macroscopic algae) from Yukon Territory,…
100 billion stars using 7 million CPU cores
Head-on (left) and side-view (right) snapshots of a galactic disk of gas. These snapshots of gas distribution after…
Astronomers reveal flat ‘Diamond Ring’ in Cygnus X is a burst bubble remnant
Multi-wavelength overview of the Diamond Ring. Credit: Astronomy & Astrophysics (2025). DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202556159 An international team led by…
ID830 is the most X-ray luminous radio-loud quasar, observations find
Artist’s rendering of the accretion disk in ULAS J1120+0641, a very distant quasar powered by a supermassive black…
Ultracold potassium-cesium molecules assembled in absolute ground state
Weakly bound KCs molecules are transferred into what is known as their “absolute ground state.” Credit: Physical Review…
New monitor now operational in the Large Hadron Collider
The installed Beam Gas Curtain on the LHC. Credit: CERN / Maximilien Brice A novel beam diagnostic instrument…