eROSITA delivers the most comprehensive census of the high-energy Universe to date
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Quote of the Day: Marie Curie, the trailblazing physicist and chemist, remains one of the most admired figures in the history of science. She was the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two different fields, physics and chemistry, and her discoveries in radioactivity transformed medicine and research. Her career was marked not only by…
In the frigid North Atlantic waters around Northeast Greenland National Park, researchers spotted something miraculous: an Arctic bobtail squid with her eggs. This, according to the findings published in Polar Biology, is the first time this species of squid has been spotted in the park. Arctic bobtail squid (Rossia moelleri) are a rare sight, and…
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory unveiled this new look at the galaxy NGC 4736, also known as Messier 94, on June 30, 2026. Messier 94 is a spiral galaxy with a bright inner ring around it, called a starburst ring, where new stars are forming, perhaps fueled by gas driven in the unique oval-shaped structure seen…
Scientific research, peer review, and forensic chemical analysis of this depth typically take one to two years to complete (Image: SNWS) A meteorite that crashed into a residence in the United States two years ago contains “salty” fluids that scientists believe may represent building blocks of life. Researchers suggest the “alien world” chemistry discovered within…
After 80 years of fruitless struggle by human mathematicians, a major geometry conjecture has at last been solved—via a straightforward query to a chatbot. The company OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, announced the result yesterday, together with comments from a number of experts, who declared the artificial intelligence’s method “clever” and “elegant.” The achievement follows months…
The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) is an array of 28 25-meter radio dishes in New Mexico. Each of the telescopes is mounted on rails, and by shifting the radiotelescopes around, the VLA can be reconfigured. This can change how the interferometer is used for greater angular resolution or surface brightness detection in…