Voyager: How Nasa still talks to spacecraft that has left Solar System forever
When Voyager 1 launched in 1977, its primary mission was a four-year sprint to Saturn. Today, nearly five…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Small group counseling boosts students’ emotional skills and school connectedness
FAU College of Education researchers found small group counseling improves sixth graders’ emotional skills, school connectedness, and engagement,…
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…