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January 12, 2026
TIME AND SPACE
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 Science Institute, and Katherine Freese of the University of Texas at Austin, argues that dark stars can resolve three key puzzles from the cosmic dawn revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The team shows how dark stars could account for the appearance of blue monster galaxies, the abundance of earl ... read more

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TECH SPACE
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
ICE WORLD
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
SPACEWAR
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
SPACE MEDICINE
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
ROCKET SCIENCE
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
IRON AND ICE
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
EXO WORLDS
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
TIME AND SPACE
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

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EXO WORLDS
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
TIME AND SPACE
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
TIME AND SPACE
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
SPACE TRAVEL
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
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
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
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
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
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TECH SPACE
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
CARBON WORLDS
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
ENERGY TECH
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
ROBO SPACE
From sci-fi to sidewalk: exoskeletons go mainstream
Las Vegas (AFP) Jan 8, 2026
Exoskeletons are shedding their bulky, sci-fi image to become lightweight, AI-powered consumer devices that manufacturers hope will become as commonplace as smartwatches, targeting everyone from hikers to seniors seeking to stay active. ... more
CAR TECH
AI helps pave the way for self-driving cars
Las Vegas (AFP) Jan 7, 2026
Even if Elon Musk's dream of robotaxis for everyone is a long way off, sleek electric cars powered by artificial intelligence packed the Consumer Electronics Show, promising to liberate people from the tedium of driving. ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Barred spiral galaxy spotted 11.5 billion years in the past
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 09, 2026
Research led by Daniel Ivanov, a physics and astronomy graduate student in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, has identified a contender for one of ... more
DRAGON SPACE
China tallies record launch year as lunar and asteroid plans advance
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 09, 2026
China's space sector completed 93 orbital launch missions in 2025, the highest annual total the nation has recorded. China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp (CASC), the main State-owned co ... more
MARSDAILY
The electrifying science behind Martian dust
St. Louis MO (SPX) Jan 08, 2026
Mars, often depicted as a barren red planet, is far from lifeless. With its thin atmosphere and dusty surface, it is an energetic and electrically charged environment where dust storms and dust devils ... more
DRAGON SPACE
Tiangong science program delivers data surge
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 09, 2026
Chinese astronauts and ground-based science teams completed 86 new scientific and technological tasks on the Tiangong space station in 2025, underscoring the outpost's expanding role in research, ac ... more
CAR TECH
Trimble positioning tech to enhance Lucid Gravity lane level navigation
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 07, 2026
Trimble has agreed to provide positioning technology that will feed navigation and driver assistance systems in the Lucid Gravity electric vehicle, delivering centimeter-level accuracy in conditions ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
International Space Station crew to return early after astronaut medical issue
Washington, United States (AFP) Jan 8, 2026
NASA crewmembers at the International Space Station will return to Earth within days after an astronaut suffered a health issue, the US space agency said Thursday, the first such medical evacuation in the orbital lab's history. ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Superradiant spin teamwork yields self driven microwave signals
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 05, 2026
When quantum particles work together, they can produce signals far stronger than any one particle could generate alone, a cooperative phenomenon known as superradiance that has often caused rapid en ... more
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China ramps up CHSN01 fusion magnet jacket for cryogenic reactors
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 06, 2026
China has produced 30 tons of cryogenic jacket material made from its CHSN01 steel in continuous lengths of about 5 km for use in Cable-in-Conduit Conductors for future fusion reactors. The jacket i ... more
ENERGY TECH
Lithium ion battery study on Tiangong space station explores microgravity effects on performance
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 08, 2026
A lithium ion battery experiment has been completed aboard China's Tiangong space station, focusing on basic electrochemical processes that govern performance and lifetime. Researchers at the Dalian ... more
EXO WORLDS
M dwarf plasma torus offers window into space weather and planetary habitability
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 08, 2026
Carnegie researcher Luke Bouma is using a naturally occurring plasma structure around certain young M dwarf stars as a kind of space weather station to investigate how stellar particles shape planet ... more
IRON AND ICE
NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory spots record-breaking asteroid in pre-survey observations
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 08, 2026
As part of the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory First Look event in June 2025, Rubin announced that it had observed thousands of asteroids cruising about our Solar System, about 1900 of which have ... more
EXO WORLDS
Puffy young exoplanets reveal origin of super Earths
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 08, 2026
Astronomers have identified a young planetary system that links newborn giant worlds to the compact super Earths and sub Neptunes that dominate the Milky Way. V1298 Tau, a star about 20 million year ... more
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