5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (763+ words) An international research team has discovered COSMOS-z3.1-A, a protosupercluster located approximately 12 billion light-years from Earth with a mass roughly 5,000 times that of the Milky Way. It is the most distant and most massive protosupercluster ever identified. The team, led…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (764+ words) A particle interaction that could be interpreted as a signal from WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles), the leading candidate for dark matter, has been detected by the LUX-ZEPLIN international collaboration. Analysis of 220 days of data collected from a detector installed…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (828+ words) A Seattle startup has compressed 15,000 years of solar wind bombardment into a four-hour laboratory process, producing synthetic lunar soil that traps volatile gases the same way authentic moon dirt does. Interlune announced the milestone on August 27, saying the breakthrough will…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (339+ words) Scientists have detected the fastest-known star in the universe, a stellar speedster locked in an extreme orbit around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way that could finally allow astronomers to measure the spin of these…...