Machine learning framework can scan for signs of extraterrestrial life
Visualization of the distribution of compounds in meteoritic samples and terrestrial geologic samples and the regression coefficients of the logistic...
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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 in July...
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, Canada. These...
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 researchers from...
Machine learning discovers quasars acting as lenses
The gravity of a luminous red galaxy (LRG) has gravitationally distorted the light from a much more distant blue galaxy...
A solar prominence hovers over the sun
Solar Orbiter’s widest high-res view of the sun. Credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team, E. Kraaikamp (ROB) The sun is...
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 hole with...
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 a supernova...
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 November 16...
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 Last time...
