Team confirms a fifth potentially habitable planet around L 98-59, a red dwarf 35 light-years away
This study exploits data from two ground-based telescopes: the Very Large Telescope (top left, credit: ESO/G. Hüdepohl) and…
How do water rings ‘bounce?’ New discovery answers decades-old question
A vortex ring of water traveling in a tank gets reflected off a water-air interface. Credit: John Zhuang…
Astronomers spot unusual magnetic field around a massive young protostar
This schematic shows circular polarization in radio waves coming from a massive young protostar surrounded by a disk…
New light behavior discovered in gypsum
Schematic representation of s-SNOM exciting and measuring phonon polaritons (top) and topological transition of shear phonon polaritons in…
How to detect magnetic fields around exoplanets
Artist’s impression of a “hot jupiter” transiting its star. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Magnetic fields play an important—if sometimes…
Optimized model offers more accurate performance predictions
Prototype NASA 1kW Kilopower nuclear reactor for use in space and on planetary surfaces. Credit: NASA Glenn Research…
How NASA saved a camera from 370 million miles away
The north polar region of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io was captured by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA’s Juno…
New Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting nearby star detected
TESS target pixel file image of TOI-2431 in Sector 31. Credit: Taş et al., 2025. Using the Transiting…
Quantum internet moves closer as researchers teleport light-based information
Quantum teleportation from telecom photons to erbium-ion ensembles. Credit: Group of Prof. Xiao-Song Ma at Nanjing University. Quantum…
This ancient pristine galaxy validates the Big Bang
A variety of galaxies are seen in this JWST image. Astronomers are hunting for ancient pristine galaxies that…
Genetic differences set the size threshold for ant queens versus workers
A colony of clonal raider ants raised in the Kronauer lab, seen from above. Credit: Daniel Kronauer For…
Scientists witness dramatic thaw in Svalbard
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new commentary published in Nature Communications by Dr. James Bradley, Reader in Environmental…