An international research team led by scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has discovered an isolated pulsar located within the tidal tail of NGC 6791, one of the oldest and most massive open clusters in the Milky Way. By combining observations from the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), the MeerKAT radio telescope and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope
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In the vast cosmos, supernova explosions are widely regarded as the most brilliant fireworks in the universe. Among them, Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are hailed as "standard candles" due to their highly consistent peak luminosity, making them a key tool for measuring cosmic distances. However, a recent study has found that even SNe Ia that appear nearly identical may hide small "genetic" differenc
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Are the large-scale magnetic fields of magnetars dominated by a dipolar structure, or is a significant magnetic-field twist required to explain the observations? A recent study by researchers from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has found that the observed X-ray polarization of two magnetars can be explained by dipole-dominated magnetic fields,
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With a twist between layers of graphene, scientists supported by the DOE’s Office of Science created the foundation for twistronics.
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The BESIII Collaboration, led by the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has achieved the world's most precise measurement of the electric dipole moment (EDM) of the Lambda (Λ) hyperon using quantum-entangled Λ–anti-Λ pairs produced in J/ψ decays. The result improves the experimental sensitivity by about three orders of magnitude compared with the previous measurem
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Active galactic nuclei (AGN), powered by accreting supermassive black holes, and X-ray binaries (XRBs), powered by accreting neutron stars or stellar-mass black holes, are two representative classes of compact accreting systems. Relativistic collimated jets are among the most spectacular phenomena in these systems. Understanding how these powerful outflows are launched, accelerated, and collimated
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The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment observed an unusual particle interaction, but researchers will need more data to confirm.
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The universe has been having fewer and fewer stellar "babies". Over the past 4.5 billion years, the rate of star birth has crashed to less than half of what it once was. But here's the twist: the most essential "fuel" for making stars has barely decreased. This finding comes from an international team led by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with the Dark Ene
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AUG 26, 2026 | Russ Nelson (L – R) Professor Pascale Ehrenfreund, COSPAR council president, presents Dr. Gary Zank, director of the UAH Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR), with the 2026 Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) Space Science Award in Florence, Italy. Courtesy COSPAR A lifetime of probing the invisible forces that shape our solar system has earned a University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) researcher one of the highest honors in international space science, as wel
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A research team from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has discovered that satellite galaxies retain a measurable "kinematic memory" of matter flowing into and along cosmic filaments. Using a large spectroscopic sample from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) , the team found that satellite galaxies preferentially orbit within planes that contain
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AUG 21, 2026 | Russ Nelson (L-R) Savaria Parrish, Pragya Natarajan and Stephanie Manasterski, the first three UAH graduate students to receive fellowships in the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Graduate Fellowship Program (EGFP). Courtesy Savaria Parrish, Pragya Natarajan and Stephanie Manasterski The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, is welcoming three graduate students who wo
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Thanks to significant philanthropic and foundation support over the last year, students across American University’s College of Arts and Sciences are turning what they learn into real-world impact.
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Galaxy mergers are among the most spectacular and destructive events in the universe. During these encounters, not only are billions of stars redistributed, but the supermassive black holes lurking in the galaxies' centers can also interact with one another. Yet systems where three galaxies merge simultaneously are uncommon. Now, researchers have obtained the first direct observational evidence fo
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An international research team, including an astronomer from the University of Michigan, have revealed how certain black holes manage to eat and grow while simultaneously flinging their food across galaxies.
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A few years ago, scientists discovered an unusual astronomical phenomenon: Objects that sent short bursts of radio waves at distinct intervals, emanating from various parts of space.
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The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) revealed that the peculiar binary system Cygnus X-3 in the constellation Cygnus is the highest energy gamma-ray source known to date. The temporal variability and spectral characteristics measured by LHAASO confirmed this object as the source of cosmic rays, with particle energies reaching at least 30 PeV (1PeV=10 15 eV), far exceeding curren
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The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory marked a major milestone with the beginning of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), a 10-year effort to capture the universe in unprecedented detail. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) engineer and former project manager for the LSST Camera, Vincent Riot reflected on the culmination of the project and the journey ahead. Development of the world's largest digital camera began before Riot arrived at the Lab in 2003. For most of his career, he worked to build first-of-its kind optical components, including lenses that would later be
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Recently, a research team from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with Anhui Normal University, used orbital similarity criteria and numerical simulations to systematically screen known near-Earth asteroids. They identified multiple groups of potential asteroid pairs that may share a common origin and estimated their possible sep
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AUG 05, 2026 | Sharla Horton Tom Vice, chairman and CEO of Astrion (second from right), presents a $75,000 check to Dr. Rainer Steinwandt, dean of the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) at Astrion's corporate office in Huntsville, AL. Also pictured are Mimmo DeMartino (far left) and Dave Brost (far right). Courtesy Connor White/Jeff White Photography The College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama Syste
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