A machine learning program, ASTRONOMALY, has scanned four million galaxy images, discovering 1635 anomalies, including 18…
Category: Physics
Astronomers find abundance of Milky Way–like galaxies in early universe, rewriting cosmic evolution theories
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), researchers have discovered that galaxies similar to the Milky…
JWST’s first triple-image supernova could save the Universe
Astronomers have discovered a triply-lensed supernova in a distant galaxy, which could help resolve the mystery…
‘We’re all going to be overwhelmed’: Emergency planners bracing for April’s solar eclipse
Emergency planners in Ohio are preparing for the first total solar eclipse in the state in…
Mathematicians find 12,000 new solutions to ‘unsolvable’ 3-body problem
An international team of mathematicians has discovered 12,000 new solutions to the three-body problem, a complex…
When Stars Align with AI: Training LLM for Astronomy Texts
Large language models like GPT-3 and PaLM have demonstrated impressive performance on many natural language tasks.…
Black Holes May Lurk Much Closer to Earth Than We Realized
Astronomers have discovered that the Hyades cluster, a group of stars 150 light-years away, may contain…
Comet Nishimura to light up night sky this weekend — Here’s how you can watch it
Comet Nishimura, discovered by Japanese space photographer Hideo Nishimura, is set to make its closest approach…
Paper Retracted When Authors Caught Using ChatGPT to Write It
A paper published in Physica Scripta has been retracted after it was discovered that the authors…
Material Found in Ocean Is Not From This Solar System, Study Claims
Harvard University’s Galileo Project has discovered tiny beads off Papua New Guinea’s coast, believed to be…
Scientists Think an Earth-Like Planet May Be Hiding in Our Solar System
Scientists propose an alternative to the hypothetical Planet Nine, suggesting a smaller, Earth-like planet closer to…
Indian Moon Rover Hits Jackpot, Detects Wealth Of Elements At Lunar South Pole
India’s Chandrayan-3 lunar mission is successfully analyzing the Moon’s surface near the lunar south pole. The…
Hackers shut down 2 of the world’s most advanced telescopes
Leading astronomical observatories have suffered cyberattacks, causing temporary shutdowns. The National Science Foundation’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy…
Is Luna 25 alive? Russia says an “emergency situation” has occurred
Roscosmos, the Russian space corporation, has reported an “emergency situation” on board its Luna 25 spacecraft,…
If the Hubble tension is real, what’s the solution?
The Hubble tension, a discrepancy in the calculated rate of the universe’s expansion, is one of…
Complete Tunneling of Acoustic Waves Between Piezoelectric Crystals
Researchers from the University of Jyväskylä in Finland have demonstrated theoretically that acoustic waves can tunnel…
Sound Really Can Travel in a Vacuum, And We Can Finally Explain How
Physicists Zhuoran Geng and Ilari Maasilta have demonstrated that sound can travel through a perfect vacuum…
Astronomers Confirm The Faintest Galaxy in The Known Universe
Astronomers have confirmed the existence of the faintest galaxy currently known in the early Universe, JD1,…
Physicists open new path to an exotic form of superconductivity
Physicists have discovered a mechanism for the formation of oscillating superconductivity, or pair-density waves, in certain…
Hopes Dashed As LK-99 Confirmed Not To Be A Room-Temperature Superconductor
The much-hyped material LK-99, initially claimed to be the first room-temperature ambient pressure superconductor, has failed…