1+ hour, 34+ min ago  (272+ words) The asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs also created an underground environment suited to supporting new life, and new research suggests it lasted for millions of years longer than previously suspected. While previous research showed the buried hydrothermal…...

5+ hour, 15+ min ago  (75+ words) Astronomers have discovered a huge reservoir of cold molecular gas, the direct fuel for star formation, in REBELS-25, a massive, star-forming galaxy. The team, led from "Leiden University, focused on REBELS-25, seen when the universe was only about 700 million years…...

6+ hour, 5+ min ago  (212+ words) On 17 June at 09: 21 local time (13: 21 BST, 14: 21 CEST) Ariane 6 flight VA269 soared to orbit from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. 36 satellites for Amazon's Leo constellation were placed into their orbit just over an hour after liftoff " the eighth successful mission insertion in…...

6+ hour, 36+ min ago  (74+ words) Astrophysicists have found what is likely the very first pair of sibling supernova remnants. One is the well-known Jellyfish Nebula, and the other was long thought to be hidden in the bright glare from the Jellyfish. The pair are connected…...

10+ hour, 43+ min ago  (97+ words) It feels like every few months we get to report on another academic paper coming out singing the praises of the Solar Gravitational SGL (SGL). Partly, this is due to Dr. Slava Turyshev's astounding productivity in terms of pumping out…...

19+ hour, 53+ min ago  (728+ words) A proposal to create a new network for monitoring cosmic threats to off-world infrastructure has won this year's Schweickart Prize, which recognizes bright ideas for planetary defense....

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (83+ words) Astronomers have detected a flickering quasar called J0439+1634 as it appeared only 850 million years after the Big Bang. That discovery raises fresh questions about black hole formation and activity in the early Universe. The flickering light of this distant cosmic lighthouse…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (324+ words) The JWST found a galaxy cluster from 10 billion years ago that's far more developed than it should be, according to cosmological models. The cluster is also the most distant strong gravitational lens that we know of. Detailed observations across the…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (135+ words) There are multiple ways to form black holes. The one most commonly taught in high school physics classes is that they are created from the collapse of a dying star. But there are another class of black holes, known as…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago  (571+ words) A new pharmaceutical production method could allow astronauts on long space missions to...