January 12, 2026

Dark star theory links JWST early universe anomalies Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 09, 2026 A recent study led by Colgate Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Cosmin Ilie, with collaborators Jillian Paulin at the University of Pennsylvania, Andreea Petric of the Space Telescope Sci ... more

Momentus to flight test 3D printed fuel tank on Vigoride 7 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 06, 2026 Momentus Inc. has developed an additively manufactured metal fuel tank that will undergo flight testing on the companys Vigoride-7 Orbital Service Vehicle in orbit. The tank, produced in collaborati ... more

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Sentinel 1 decade long radar record tracks shifting Greenland and Antarctic ice Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 08, 2026 The Copernicus Sentinel 1 mission has delivered a 10 year record of how ice flows from Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets into the ocean, providing a consistent, high resolution view of a key driver ... more

MDA Space wins role in US SHIELD missile defense program Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 09, 2026 MDA Space Ltd. (TSX: MDA) reports it has received an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract from the Missile Defense Agency for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered D ... more

NASA says targeting ISS medical evacuation for January 14 Washington, United States (AFP) Jan 10, 2026 NASA crewmembers aboard the International Space Station (ISS) could return to Earth as soon as Thursday, the US space agency said, after a medical emergency prompted the crew to return from their mission early. ... more

Starfighters completes supersonic tests for GE Aerospace ramjet program Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 06, 2026 Starfighters Space Inc has completed a supersonic flight test campaign for GE Aerospace in which a company F-104 aircraft carried an advanced propulsion test vehicle on multiple flights at supersoni ... more

Asteroid metals harden under extreme particle blasts London, UK (SPX) Jan 09, 2026 Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a study showing that iron-rich asteroids can withstand much higher energy inputs than expected without breaking apart, a result that affect ... more

Creating hallucination-free, psychedelic-like molecules by shining light on life's basic building blocks Davis CA (SPX) Jan 08, 2026 UC Davis researchers have developed a new method that uses light to transform amino acids - the building blocks of proteins - into molecules that are similar in structure to psychedelics and mimic t ... more

Electrons lag behind the nucleus Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 07, 2026 One of the great successes of 20th-century physics was the quantum mechanical description of solids. This allowed scientists to understand for the first time how and why certain materials conduct el ... more Giant amoeba virus ushikuvirus sheds light on how complex cells evolved Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 08, 2026 Giant DNA viruses that infect amoebae are providing new evidence that viruses may have helped drive the evolution of complex life, according to researchers at Tokyo University of Science and the Nat ... more Quantum interferometer boosts sensitivity to tiny laser beam shifts Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 09, 2026 Researchers at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen have demonstrated a quantum interferometric method that can register extremely small tilts and displacements of a laser beam. The approach is ba ... more Surrey Japan team to probe short lived atomic nuclei in cosmic element quest Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 09, 2026 Plans to obtain the first precision measurements of some of the rarest and most unstable atomic nuclei are set to advance understanding of nuclear structure and the way chemical elements form during ... more Why Space Exploration Depends on Predicting the Unpredictable Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 12, 2026 Space is unpredictable, yet every space mission demands near-perfect precision. That tension is what makes exploration so compelling. We send people and machines into environments that we cannot fully measure, where even the smallest forces can dramatically alter outcomes ... more Jets from black hole drive record coronal gas stream in nearby galaxy Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 09, 2026 Astronomers at the University of California, Irvine have identified the largest-known stream of super-heated gas in the universe flowing out of a nearby disk galaxy called VV 340a, with their findin ... more Milky Way stars mapped as major source of ghost particle flux at Earth Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 09, 2026 Neutrinos, often called ghost particles, are elementary particles that are electrically neutral, extremely light, and interact only rarely with other matter. Trillions pass through Earth and the hum ... more This exotic form of ice just got weirder Menlo Park CA (SPX) Jan 08, 2026 Researchers hoped to clarify the boundaries between different types of superionic water - the hot, black ice believed to exist at the core of giant ice planets. Instead, they found multiple atomic s ... more Oceans struggle to absorb Earth's carbon dioxide as microplastics invade their waters Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (SPX) Jan 05, 2026 A new study reveals that microplastics are impairing the oceans' ability to absorb carbon dioxide, a process scientists find crucial for regulating Earth's temperature. Defined as tiny plastic ... more EAST experiments point to density free regime for fusion plasmas Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 05, 2026 Researchers working on China's fully superconducting Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) have experimentally accessed a theorized density-free regime for fusion plasmas, maintaining ... more