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A study in Astronomy & Astrophysics has used echoes from distant cosmic explosions to redraw part of the Milky Way, finding that two outer spiral arms sit farther from Earth than long-used maps suggested. Led by Beatrice Vaia of the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, the team turned three gamma-ray bursts into measuring tools for the…
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NASA Earth Observatory has revisited a mysterious stretch of shallow ocean where the seafloor looks almost painted from space. In a Landsat 8 view of the Great Bahama Bank, blue-green ribbons sweep across submerged sandbanks and seagrass beds like brushstrokes on a vast marine canvas. The scene comes from the Great Bahama Bank, a massive…
A Science study reports that a thin, weak layer of clay beneath the Japan Trench helped the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake rupture toward the seafloor. That shallow break allowed the ocean bottom to lurch an extraordinary 130 to 200 feet, helping drive the tsunami that devastated Japan’s coast. The finding comes from an international ocean drilling…
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to produce the most detailed map yet of the cosmic web, the vast structure that organizes galaxies across the universe. The work uses data from COSMOS-Web, the largest JWST survey conducted so far, to trace galaxy environments back toward the universe’s…
A study posted to arXiv pushes one of galaxy evolution’s most important milestones deep into cosmic history. Researchers led by Xiaohan Wang of Tsinghua University report that JWST, with support from the Hubble Space Telescope, has identified M1149-BSG-z5, a massive barred spiral galaxy candidate seen when the universe was less than 1.2 billion years old.…
Researchers at the University of Chicago and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have sharpened one of planetary science’s biggest origin clues with a Jupiter study in The Planetary Science Journal. Their simulations suggest that Jupiter’s deep atmosphere may contain about 1 to 1.5 times the Sun’s oxygen abundance, a result that points to a planet built…
A study in PLOS One found that the plant-eating dinosaur Nigersaurus taqueti had one of the most extreme dental systems ever identified in a dinosaur. Its mouth held roughly 500 teeth and the study estimated that each tooth could be replaced about every two weeks. That finding turned a strange Cretaceous herbivore into a vivid…
A 2025 study in Frontiers in Physiology highlights a central challenge in modern space medicine. Scientists are trying to understand how humans recover from long stays in orbit while working with a very small group of people. That problem matters for a strange post-flight experience described by some astronauts after six-month missions, a lingering sense…
The European Space Agency has announced that ESA and JAXA‘s BepiColombo spacecraft has permanently switched off its solar electric propulsion system, ending the long ion-powered cruise that carried it across the inner Solar System. The shutdown on June 15, 2026, moves the mission into its final approach toward Mercury, where arrival operations are now scheduled…
Mowi Chile has launched the country’s first floating solar pen at its Huar Norte salmon farm. The marine energy system combines photovoltaic panels with batteries and power controls. According to project partner AKVA group, renewable energy is expected to supply about 57% of the site’s electricity needs. The installation is designed to reduce the farm’s…
NASA’s New Horizons mission compressed years of engineering and navigation into several crucial hours near Pluto. According to NASA’s official data return report, the spacecraft later needed more than 15 months to transmit the complete record of that encounter back to Earth. The timing exposed one of the defining challenges of exploring the outer solar…
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