2+ week, 5+ day ago   (752+ words) The Link spacecraft, sent to boost NASA's ageing Swift Observatory into a higher orbit, developed serious control problems and won't complete its rescue mission NASA is gearing up to launch its next major space observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (298+ words) After more than half a century of searching, physicists believe they’ve confirmed a strange new form of matter, one that oddly consists of particles with no mass at all. These elusive “glueballs,” whose existence is predicted by the Standard Model…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (415+ words) Astronomers watched the remains of a dead star dissolve back into interstellar gas, offering a preview of our own Sun's eventual fate Astronomers have discovered the fastest known star in our galaxy, one that races around the supermassive black hole…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (326+ words) The object detected by the James Webb telescope sits behind galaxy cluster Abell S1063, its image magnified by gravitational lensing A rare planet-forming disk around a young triple star system in the constellation Orion has been thrown off balance by an…...

23+ hour, 4+ min ago   (533+ words) New research indicates that Mercury, the solar system’s smallest planet, might be contracting more dramatically than previously understood — similar to how a grape shrivels into a raisin when exposed to heat. A team from the German Aerospace Center’s Institute of…...