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…
Vijay Shekhar Sharma On Paytm’s AI-Powered App Refresh
Paytm chief Vijay Shekhar Sharma, a staunch advocate of AI-led innovation, has said that the technology is now…
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,…
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…
Asteroid 2024 YR4 was Earth’s first real-life defense test
Artist’s depiction of an asteroid floating in space. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb), Martin Kornmesser (ESA),…
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…
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…
Cosmic ray puzzle resolved as scientists link ‘knee’ formation to black holes
LHAASO experiment. Credit: LHAASO Collaboration Milestone results released by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) on…
Humans have sensitive hands; solar system travels 3 times faster than predicted
Lesser yellowlegs. Credit: Russ, Wikimedia Commons, CC license attribution It’s the third of a generous five Saturdays in…
If the supernova standard candle is wrong, it could solve the Hubble tension
An illustration showing how Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAOs) expand with the universe. Credit: Gabriela Secara, Perimeter Institute CC-BY-4.0…
Raman quantum memory demonstrates near-unity performance
The team’s experimental setup. Credit: APS, Physical Review Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1103/kbwj-md9n. Over the past decades, quantum physicists…
Mystery of how much squid short-finned pilot whales eat resolved
An aerial view of Hawai’i short-finned pilot whales at the surface. Credit: HIMB Marine Mammal Research Program How…