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NASA’s IXPE Detects Strongest Evidence Yet for Vacuum Birefringence

Artist's concept of magnetar 1E 1547.0-5408 with magnetic field lines depicted

NASA's IXPE and NICER measured X-ray polarization nearly three times higher than similar magnetars, offering astronomers the most definitive evidence yet for a 90-year-old quantum prediction.

  • BySandy
  • OnAugust 14, 2026
  • Science

Boston College Dates Mars Meteorite NWA 13441 to 1.27 Billion Years

Artist's depiction of giant impacts on Mars 4.5 billion years ago that free meteorites from the planet

Boston College researchers determined that Martian meteorite Northwest Africa 13441 crystallized 1.273 billion years ago, filling a long-standing gap in the shergottite meteorite age record.

  • BySandy
  • OnAugust 14, 2026
  • Science

Inouye Solar Telescope Confirms Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the Sun

Solar surface imagery from the Inouye Solar Telescope showing Kelvin-Helmholtz instability

The NSF Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope has captured direct observational evidence of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability on the Sun's photosphere, confirming a process theorized since 1870.

  • BySandy
  • OnAugust 14, 2026
  • Science

Europa’s Ice Shell Blocks Ocean Water From Reaching Surface, Study Finds

True color view of Jupiter's icy moon Europa showing cracked and ridged ice surface, assembled from NASA Galileo spacecraft images

Rutgers-led simulations show turbulence would freeze water rising through Europa's ice shell within hours, complicating the search for shallow, potentially habitable reservoirs near the surface.

  • BySandy
  • OnAugust 14, 2026
  • Astronomy

JWST Finds Earliest Known ‘Black Hole Star’ at Cosmic Dawn

Illustration comparing a star, a black hole, and a black hole star — a black hole enshrouded in dense gas that radiates like a star

An international team led by ISTA and University of Hawaii astronomers used JWST spectra to identify MoM-BH*-1, a black hole star radiating just 660 million years after the Big Bang.

  • BySandy
  • OnAugust 14, 2026
  • Astronomy

JWST Uncovers a Third Giant Planet Hiding in Beta Pictoris

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has identified a third giant planet in…

  • BySandy
  • OnAugust 5, 2026
  • Astronomy

Hubble and Webb Locate a Missing Black Hole in Omega Centauri

Astronomers have detected the first stellar-mass black hole within Omega Centauri, the…

  • BySandy
  • OnAugust 3, 2026
  • Science

CSIRO’s GINAN Receiver Finds Radio Sky Brighter Than Standard Models

A team led by CSIRO has measured the low-frequency radio sky as…

  • BySandy
  • OnJune 29, 2026
  • Astronomy

Gran Telescopio Canarias Confirms And XXXVI as Andromeda’s Faintest Satellite

Astronomers have confirmed a new dwarf galaxy orbiting Andromeda (M31), built from…

  • BySandy
  • OnJune 29, 2026
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A Lost Planet May Have Saved Jupiter and Uranus’s Moons

For decades, astronomers have suspected that our Solar System may not have…

  • BySandy
  • OnMay 30, 2026
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