Discoveries and Breakthroughs

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (832+ words) Yahoo A bizarre neutrino that crashed into Earth in February 2023 is gaining no shortage of equally bizarre explanations. About 35 times more energetic than any neutrino seen before, it was picked up by the under-construction Cubic Kilometer Neutrino Telescope (KM3NeT) detector off…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (276+ words) The Globe and Mail Four astronauts pulled up at the International Space Station on Thursday after launching on an eight-hour express that set a United States speed record. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carried NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney,…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1267+ words) ‘Dark Matter’ Recap: “What the Universe is Made Of” Vulture Things you buy through our links may earn Vox Media a commission. One of the basic obsessions of Dark Matter is how much the context of a person’s life informs…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1323+ words) A recently-discovered small galaxy within Andromeda is challenging what we know about how the universe formed Our Milky Way Galaxy is one of the two most prominent members of the Local Group of galaxies. This dumbbell-shaped collection of galaxies includes…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (221+ words) bhpioneer.com LEAD — Scientists and SURF officials say extending the LZ experiment is a great opportunity for the United States to stay in the business of dark matter world leadership, but officials at America’s underground lab need to…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (264+ words) KARACHI, Pakistan (MNTV) — Pakistani-American physicist Nergis Mavalvala has called for greater investment in scientific research, saying curiosity and access to opportunity are central to discovery and that universities have a duty to nurture both, The Express Tribune reported. Mavalvala — dean…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (325+ words) inkorr.com Could Primordial Black Holes Reveal Hidden Fifth Dimensions and Alter Hawking Radiation? Primordial Black Holes and the Mystery of a Fifth Dimension Primordial black holes, thought to have formed shortly after the Big Bang, might hold evidence of…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (65+ words) The black holes at the hearts of galaxies get the credit and/or blame for a lot of things in their hosts. For example, they take the blame for gobbling up star-forming material, effectively "quenching" starbirth in some areas of…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago   (303+ words) Vassar College alumna Vera C. Rubin’s early passion for astronomy, building a cardboard telescope at age 10 to track meteors, is honored by the newly operational Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The observatory, the first major, publicly funded U.S. observatory named…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1180+ words) Tiny particles called neutrinos could help determine whether a dying massive star explodes as a supernova or collapses into a black hole. When dying stars run out of fuel, they have two ways to go. They can blow apart as…...