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AI helps create the first star-level Milky Way simulation, running over 100 times faster than past models.
New AI-powered model delivers the first star-by-star simulation of the Milky Way, giving scientists a faster way to explore how galaxies grow.
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A new study of Chang’e-6 soil samples reveals micrometer-scale hematite formed in ancient lunar impact plumes, shifting long-held views of Moon chemistry.
SpaceChang’e-6 samples show ancient lunar impacts left rust on the MoonJoshua Shavit
New study shows time loops force memory loss, entropy reversal, and strict physical resets.
SpaceThe unexpected consequence of time travel: complete memory lossJoshua Shavit
This artist’s impression shows a coronal mass ejection (CME) around another star.
SpaceMassive stellar explosion reshapes what we know about planetary safety and stabilityJoseph Shavit
Panoramic aerial drone image of the Jinlin crater, taken on May 12, 2025.
Space10,000-year-old impact crater in China reveals meteorite strike equal to 40 atomic bombsJoshua Shavit
NASA's Curiosity rover at Mars' Gale Crater. Hardened dunes act as natural vaults that can store chemical signatures of life for billions of years.
SpaceUnderground water in Martian dunes points to hidden habitable zonesJoseph Shavit
The Pleiades, long admired as the Seven Sisters, are only the bright core of a much larger stellar family stretching nearly 2,000 light-years across the Milky Way.
SpaceThe Seven Sisters (Pleiades) are part of a vast 2,000-light-year stellar networkMac Oliveau
Galaxy Y1 shines thanks to dust grains heated by newly-formed stars. Image from the James Webb telescope.
SpaceAstronomers discover a galaxy making stars 180x faster than the Milky WayJoseph Shavit
SpaceScientists design orbiting satellite networks for detailed exploration of TitanJoshua Shavit
Early matter era may have formed the first black holes and exotic stars before nucleosynthesis.
SpaceAstronomers reveal what happened less than a second after the Big BangJoseph Shavit
A still image from a computer simulation of a black hole’s formation and evolution.
SpaceAstronomers solve cosmic mystery surrounding two massive black holes that shouldn’t existJoseph Shavit
New thermal data from Cassini reveal unexpected heat rising from Enceladus’s quiet north pole, suggesting a far more active interior and a stable subsurface ocean.
SpaceSaturn’s icy moon may host a stable ocean fit for lifeJoshua Shavit
"Pillars of Creation," a region in the Eagle Nebula where clouds of gas and dust are collapsing to form new stars.
SpaceCosmic discovery reveals how mysterious buckyballs form in deep spaceJoshua Shavit
Illustration of ESCAPADE twin spacecraft entering Mars’ orbit.
SpaceUC Berkeley and NASA prepare twin satellites — could rewrite what we know about MarsJoshua Shavit
A new study shows that satellites can create high-quality entanglement from photons sent up from Earth
SpaceGround-based satellite uplink revolutionizes quantum communicationShy Cohen
New infrared analysis shows Io releases far more heat than past studies found.
SpaceJupiter’s volcanic moon Io is burning much hotter than expectedJoseph Shavit
Astronomers using the Gemini South telescope in Chile, operated by NSF NOIRLab, have observed the first compelling evidence of a dying Sun-like star engulfing an exoplanet.
SpaceAging stars destroy their closest worlds far sooner than expectedJoshua Shavit