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Railway timetables and magnetic records place Exeter’s reported solar-storm train delay in 1848, correcting a longstanding date error.
A railway that did not yet exist exposed a historical error. Independent records favor 1848 for Exeter’s space weather train delay.
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Artist’s impression of WISE 0855, a cold, free-floating world about 7.5 light-years away. Webb observations provide evidence of changing water-cloud thickness and atmospheric chemistry beneath the clouds.
SpaceJWST discovers the first shifting water clouds on a planet outside of our solar systemJoseph Shavit
The Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud as seen by Mars Express. A new model suggests Mars’s 1,800-kilometer cloud forms ice without dust seeds, though the mechanism still needs confirmation.
SpaceMars’s longest morning cloud may form ice without dustJoshua Shavit
NASA selected GIMLI to search for a lava tube beneath the Marius Hills Pit, a potential natural shelter for future astronauts.
SpaceNASA plans radar and seismic tests for a hidden lunar cave that could shelter future astronautsJoseph Shavit
Webb finds the host of a record-distance fast radio burst, revealing a young dwarf galaxy that favors a magnetar origin.
SpaceJWST traces the most distant known fast radio burst to a strange dwarf galaxyJoseph Shavit
Atlantic sediments reveal a magnetic reversal lasting 70,000 years, challenging assumptions about Earth's changing field.
SpaceEarth’s magnetic field took 70,000 years to complete an ancient reversalJoseph Shavit
A theoretical model uses information theory to estimate cosmic bits, without proving information is a new state of matter.
SpaceScientists calculate how much information exists in the observable universeJoseph Shavit
Webb and Spitzer study 21 extreme debris disks, linking dust minerals to possible giant impacts and changing planetary orbits.
SpaceNASA’s James Webb telescope reveals the dusty aftermath of 21 planet-shattering collisionsJoseph Shavit
A theoretical study explores how a hidden dimension could shape primordial black holes and a possible high-energy neutrino connection.
SpaceFive-dimensional black holes offer a possible explanation for dark matter and neutrinosJoseph Shavit
Unusual elements and a 4.4-day brightness cycle suggest a planet formed from material shed by the white dwarf HS 0209+0832.
SpaceAstronomers discover a ‘phoenix planet’ reborn from the ashes of a dead starJoseph Shavit
Gemini North images reveal chains of gas knots in Pa 30, a supernova remnant linked to 1181 with a surviving central star.
SpaceCosmic ‘pearls’ emerge around the surviving star of an ancient supernovaJoseph Shavit
Engineers 3D printed recycled PEKK and simulated moon dust into lattices and a wrench, testing a route toward lunar manufacturing.
SpaceRecycled plastic and moon dust become 3D-printed parts and structures for future lunar missionsJoshua Shavit
Recent lightsail experiments reveal progress toward interstellar travel, while distance, radiation and energy remain major hurdles.
SpaceInterstellar travel faces steep hurdles, but recent research is paving a new path to the starsJoseph Shavit
Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, low-cost particle detector that tracks muons, invisible particles that originate from space.
SpaceCosmicWatch lets students build a detector for invisible cosmic-ray particlesJoshua Shavit
Gold nanogaps and AI distinguish mirror-image amino acids, offering a possible route to compact instruments for the search for life.
SpaceScientists use AI and nanotechnology to detect signs of life in spaceJoseph Shavit
An artist’s impression of ZTF J0440+2325, where a brown dwarf transfers material onto a red dwarf as the pair orbit each other every 86.65 minutes.
SpaceA small star is slowly consuming a brown dwarf, 300 light years awayJoseph Shavit
A gamma-ray reanalysis tightens specific limits on violations of Einstein’s light-speed rule by roughly a factor of ten.
SpaceCosmic gamma rays test the limits of Einstein’s speed of light ruleJoseph Shavit