LEAD, S.D. Scientists have made a possible breakthrough in the hunt for dark matter observing hints of it during an experiment about a mile underground in South Dakota though they stopped short of sa… [+4259 chars]

Scientists have made a possible breakthrough in the hunt for dark matter, though they stopped short of ​saying they have finally detected this elusive cosmic component.

KSL.com

Scientists make potential breakthrough in search for dark matter - KSL.com

New Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) modeling, conducted in collaboration with scientists at the University of Arizona, shows fundamental differences in how the moon may have formed from the giant… [+4781 chars]

New Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) modeling, conducted in collaboration with scientists at the University of Arizona, shows fundamental differences in how the moon may have formed from the giant impact that created the Earth–moon system. The new results …

Phys.Org

Giant impact could have formed an intact moon within five hours, simulations suggest - Phys.org

Black hole stars," making cookies from plastic, tiny sound-powered drones, and more.

Ars Technica

Research roundup: 7 cool science stories we almost missed - Ars Technica

Hawking radiation causes black holes to eventually evaporate. This is because particle pairs are spontaneously created near the event horizon (the position of the last ray of light that can escape th… [+3220 chars]

Hawking radiation causes black holes to eventually evaporate. This is because particle pairs are spontaneously created near the event horizon (the position of the last ray of light that can escape the black hole's gravitational pull). A particle and its antip…

Switching gravity on and off leaves particles behind, mathematical model finds - Phys.org

Astronomers from the University of Manchester and the University of the Western Cape have directly detected an extremely faint radio signal from hydrogen gas billions of light-years away, opening a p… [+5129 chars]

Astronomers from the University of Manchester and the University of the Western Cape have directly detected an extremely faint radio signal from hydrogen gas billions of light-years away, opening a powerful new way to map the large-scale structure of the univ…

MeerKAT directly detects faint hydrogen signal from the distant universe - Phys.org

Nearly 35 years of seismic data. Over two million waveforms from roughly 5,000 magnitude-6-plus earthquakes. Manual analysis had picked through this archive for decades and kept missing something. A … [+4693 chars]

AI scanned 2 million earthquake records and found six hidden zones near Earth's core-mantle boundary that decades of manual analysis missed.

Gadgetreview.com

AI Scanned 2 Million Earthquake Records and Found Six Hidden Zones Near Earth’s Core - yahoo.com

On Nov. 11, 2025, Earth experienced a severe geomagnetic storm triggered by solar flares and coronal mass ejections from an active sunspot region. While this kind of storm brings beautiful auroras ad… [+5577 chars]

On Nov. 11, 2025, Earth experienced a severe geomagnetic storm triggered by solar flares and coronal mass ejections from an active sunspot region. While this kind of storm brings beautiful auroras admired in many areas around the world, it can also cause iono…

Geomagnetic superstorm shook GPS accuracy across the US—its timing may have averted agricultural losses - Phys.org

Pluto may be losing part of its sky to the ground beneath it.
A 2026 study in The Planetary Science Journal reports that the dwarf planets atmospheric pressure appears to have begun falling after a … [+10198 chars]

Stellar occultations suggest Pluto’s long pressure plateau is ending as nitrogen gas begins condensing back onto its frozen surface.

Space Daily

Pluto’s atmosphere has probably persisted in some form for millions of years, but observations suggest its pressure fell 16% between mid-2021 and July 2023. With Pluto continuing away from the Sun until 2114, astronomers may be witnessing the beginning - Space Daily

Romantic overload isn't just a human problem; for one tree frog species, too many suitors can mean making a bad choice, or none at all. A new study on Cope's gray tree frogs in Tennessee finds that f… [+832 chars]

Study suggests 'choice overload' helps to keep less-desirable males reproducing

Newser

Frogs Make Poor Mating Choices When Overwhelmed - Newser

A computer-generated model of the capsid of bacteriophage X174. Credit: Laguna Design/Science Photo Library
Few biological systems have been studied as exhaustively as the phage X174, or phi X. Yet … [+2939 chars]

Top artificial-intelligence models failed to predict the biological consequences of rewriting a virus's entire DNA code.

Nature.com

Mutating every DNA letter of a genome shows surprising effects — and the limits of AI - Nature

Scientists have long grappled with a perplexing question: in the early universe, new stars appeared with dazzling frequency, yet today, star formation has clearly slowed. Now, a new study led by Chin… [+3113 chars]

Scientists have long grappled with a perplexing question: in the early universe, new stars appeared with dazzling frequency, yet today, star formation has clearly slowed. Now, a new study led by Chinese scientists is offering fresh and crucial clues

Cgtn.com

China's FAST telescope offers new clues for understanding cosmic evolution - news.cgtn.com

Two planets, orbiting the same M-dwarf star, both physically well-suited to atmospheric spectroscopy with existing and upcoming instruments, and both flagged as high-priority targets in their respect… [+8141 chars]

The discovery could finally let scientists test whether distant worlds can hang onto their atmospheres—or lose them to the stellar winds of their parent stars.

A blistering lava world and a larger planet sitting in the habitable zone have been confirmed orbiting the same red dwarf 337 light-years away, a rare pairing that has put the system near the top of astronomers' list for probing whether an alien world can hold an - Space Daily

By combining roughly two decades of observations from NASA's Swift X-ray Telescope with radio monitoring, astronomers have caught a supermassive black hole at the heart of the Perseus Cluster suddenl… [+5286 chars]

By combining roughly two decades of observations from NASA's Swift X-ray Telescope with radio monitoring, astronomers have caught a supermassive black hole at the heart of the Perseus Cluster suddenly flaring in X-rays, and about 300 days later, its powerful …

A supermassive black hole erupted in X-rays, and its radio jets followed 300 days later - Phys.org

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<li>In 1989, UK researchers turned 50 tonnes of coal-fired power station waste into an underwater reef; lobsters and crabs arrived within 3 weeks</li></ul>
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Science News: What happens when waste from a coal-fired power station is placed beneath the sea? In 1989, researchers in the UK built an experimental artificial ree.

The Times of India

In 1989, UK researchers turned 50 tonnes of coal-fired power station waste into an underwater reef; lobst - The Times of India

NASA's cost estimate for SR-1 Freedom is $2.1 billion, but that doesn't include the helicopters.

Without new landers or rovers, it’s helicopters or bust for NASA’s Mars program - Ars Technica

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<li>Scientists use robots more than two kilometres beneath the Pacific to discover huge lava fields around an active underwater volcano</li></ul>
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Science News: More than two kilometres beneath the surface of the Pacific, off the coast of Oregon, an active underwater volcano has been hiding one of the stranges.

Scientists use robots more than two kilometres beneath the Pacific to discover huge lava fields around an - The Times of India

Discover the cosmos!
Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
2026 September 1 
A Plan… [+1452 chars]

A different astronomy and space science
related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.

NASA

2026 September 1 – A Plane Lunar Eclipse - NASA (.gov)

SALT LAKE CITY Every year, James Karner travels to Antarctica as the principal investigator of the Antarctic Search for Meteorites to find and collect meteorites for the whole world to study.
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A 774-gram fragment of the Great Salt Lake meteorite is on display at the University of Utah.

Meteorite from 'once-in-a-lifetime' Great Salt Lake crash on display at University of Utah - KSL

Scientists have cleared a striking hurdle in synthetic biology: They got two different genetic codes working inside the same cell.
The advance is a step toward building forms of life that can manufa… [+2822 chars]

Scientists may be able to add capabilities gradually instead of rebuilding life's operating system all at once.

Yahoo Entertainment

Scientists get 2 genetic codes working in one cell, a step toward life built with novel proteins - Yahoo

Photographer James Balog and his crew were hanging out near a glacier when their camera captured something extraordinary. They were in Greenland, gathering footage from the time-lapse they'd position… [+3949 chars]

A photographer captured the largest glacier calving event ever filmed, forever changing his mind on climate change.