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Astronomy Jul 21, 2026

Black hole jet may be stirring gas cloud containing early 'red potato' galaxy

A black hole may be stirring a "pot" of gas containing a neighboring galaxy in the early universe, according to a new study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics that used observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. ...

Earth Sciences Jul 21, 2026

Satellite imagery captures the impact of large U.S. dams on river temperatures over the last decade

A team of Virginia Tech geoscientists has found a new way to examine the widespread effects of dams on river temperatures: using Landsat thermal infrared imagery to gather data on rivers across the United States. By using ...

Astronomy Jul 21, 2026

Antarctic 12-m Terahertz Telescope project to uncover hidden galaxy formation

A new simulation study suggests that the Antarctic 12-m Terahertz Telescope (ATT12), a next-generation facility led by University of Tsukuba, could uncover between 1 and 10 million dusty star-forming galaxies throughout cosmic ...

Planetary Sciences Jul 21, 2026

New NASA Earth missions gear up to start science flights

Landslides in Alaska. Air quality in Atlanta. Fire clouds out West. From the Arctic fringes to farm country, NASA's newest class of suborbital Earth Venture missions is gearing up to deliver science that will benefit communities ...

Astronomy Jul 21, 2026

A star orbiting our galaxy's supermassive black hole tests the limits of relativity

Although general relativity (GR) is an elegant theory of gravity, we don't often need to use it. For most gravitational interactions, Newton's theory of universal gravitation works just fine. Newton's model is good enough ...

Earth Sciences Jul 20, 2026

Why AI's environmental footprint won't disappear into orbit

AI companies increasingly want to move their operations into space. Elon Musk's SpaceX has applied to launch over a million AI data center satellites and ultimately build them on the moon.

Astronomy Jul 19, 2026

Observations investigate the nature of a peculiar supernova

An international team of astronomers has performed follow-up observations of a peculiar Type Ia supernova designated SN 2023vjh. Results of the observational campaign, published July 9 on the preprint server arXiv, deliver ...

Astronomy Jul 17, 2026

Giant planets could act as dark matter detectors

Researchers in the U.S. have carried out the most stringent tests to date of the idea that an ultraviolet glow in the atmospheres of giant planets could partly arise through the indirect interaction between dark matter and ...

Astrobiology Jul 16, 2026

In search of life beyond our solar system: Atmosphere detected on a habitable-zone rocky world

In a major milestone in the search for life on other planets, astronomers have detected, for the first time, an atmosphere surrounding an Earth-like, rocky planet orbiting within the habitable zone of another star. The finding ...

Earth Sciences Jul 16, 2026

A new record holder for the world's oldest amber discovered in China

Paleontologists in China have discovered the oldest chemically verified amber ever found, dating to 385 million years ago. That's approximately 140 million years before dinosaurs roamed Earth. The previous record holder was ...

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