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Cosmic Glass Found Only in Australia Reveals Ancient Asteroid Impact

Curtin researchers have helped uncover evidence of a mysterious giant asteroid impact, hidden not in a crater but in tiny pieces of glass found only in Australia.

19 Sep 2025

Mapping Star Formation in the Milky Way

Scientists generated the most precise three-dimensional image of star formation zones in the Milky Way galaxy using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope.

17 Sep 2025

Novel Technique Enables The First Direct Observation of Magnon Spin Currents

Using resonant inelastic x-ray scattering, scientists achieve the first direct observation of magnon spin currents.

15 Sep 2025

New Insights into Emergence of Proton and Its Excited States

The small but ubiquitous proton serves as a foundation for the bulk of the visible matter in the universe. It abides at the very heart of matter, giving rise to everything we see around us as it anchors the nuclei of atoms.

15 Sep 2025

Simulations Reveal the Origins of Globular Clusters

For generations, astronomers have pondered the origins of globular clusters, which are among the universe’s oldest and densest star systems

15 Sep 2025

New Detector Challenges Existing Models of Dark Matter

An international team, led by researchers from the University of Zurich’s Department of Physics, has used an improved superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) to probe for dark matter particles across a wide mass range below one mega electron volt (MeV).

10 Sep 2025

Unprecedented Gamma-Ray Burst Puzzles Astronomers

Astronomers have observed a gamma-ray burst (GRB) unlike any seen before: a powerful explosion that repeated multiple times over a single day.

10 Sep 2025

Highest-Resolution Image Reveals the Secrets of Fomalhaut’s Debris Disk

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a global research team led by astronomers from Johns Hopkins University and the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian has created the highest resolution image to date, providing new information about the peculiar and enigmatic structure of the debris disk surrounding Fomalhaut, one of the brightest and well-studied stars in the cosmic neighborhood.

9 Sep 2025

New Study Unlocks a Surprising Quantum Interaction

Researchers at The City College of New York demonstrated how a quantum emitter, the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond, interacts unexpectedly with a specifically built photonic structure when moved with a scanning needle.

8 Sep 2025

Astronomers Find a Massive Dark Matter Cloud with Pulsars

In a preprint released in August 2025, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics reported a newly identified cloud composed entirely of dark matter.

3 Sep 2025