4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (380+ words) A Compact Planetary System Close to Home "The basic thesis for TRAPPIST-1e is this: If it has an atmosphere, it's habitable," said Ranjan, who is an assistant professor at LPL. "But right now, the first-order question must be, 'Does an…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (518+ words) Milestone results released by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) on November 16 have finally clarified a decades-old puzzle in astrophysics: the unusual drop in cosmic ray counts above 3 Pe V that produces what scientists call the "knee" in…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago  (558+ words) Modern cosmology is often associated with massive observatories, advanced instruments, and large international collaborations backed by significant funding. However, meaningful progress does not always require such scale. Even in the complex search for dark matter, smaller teams with creative approaches…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago  (275+ words) "Coordinating mineral detections from orbit at Mars with in situ detections by the Perseverance rover gives us a detailed look at ancient chemical reactions for a few small areas and a broader view across kilometers of the surface," said Bishop....

8+ mon, 2+ week ago  (403+ words) Hubble's latest portrait of the Tarantula Nebula reveals a turbulent star-making region far beyond the Milky Way. Located 160, 000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, this cosmic expanse is home to some of the most massive stars ever discovered'up to…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (652+ words) An international group of astronomers has identified a faraway planetary system that calls into question one of the most widely accepted ideas about how planets take shape. This arrangement is explained by a leading theory of planet formation. Young stars…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (635+ words) The study, published in Nature Astronomy, focused on Cygnus X-1, a well-known system that includes the first confirmed black hole and a massive supergiant star. Scientists determined that the jets streaming from this black hole carry an energy output equal to…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (412+ words) The newly observed sequence involves two important changes in magnetic behavior that occur as certain materials are cooled toward absolute zero. While scientists have previously detected each transition separately, this study is the first to observe the entire sequence unfolding…...

1+ year, 1+ week ago  (84+ words) Unlike contact interactions in conventional ultracold gases, dipolar interactions span the entire system, creating rich collective behaviors. The team's experiments demonstrated how the dipolar interaction modifies the critical parameters of the BKT transition. Materials provided by Hong Kong University of…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (305+ words) Building Phages From Digital DNA With NEB's Golden Gate Assembly platform, scientists can assemble an entire phage genome outside the cell using synthetic DNA, incorporating all planned genetic changes during construction. Once assembled, the genome is introduced into a safe…...