NASA has suspended scientific operations on the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory to prevent its orbital decay, currently working to deploy a robotic “reboost” mission to extend the life of the $250 million telescope. The agency’s effort involves the LINK robotic spacecraft, developed by Katalyst Space, which is designed to physically maneuver the aging satellite into … Read more
Indian researchers have successfully used Artificial Intelligence to digitize hand-drawn solar observations from the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory (KSO), creating a consistent record of magnetic activity from 1916 to 2007. According to the Ministry of Science and Technology, this machine-learning approach allows scientists to better understand space weather risks that can affect technology on earth. How … Read more
NASA is partnering with Katalyst Space and Northrop Grumman to launch the LINK robotic servicing satellite, designed to raise the orbit of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. The mission, launching from the Marshall Islands, aims to prevent the atmospheric re-entry of the observatory by using robotic arms to boost its altitude, marking a significant step … Read more
Astronomers have identified a heavily obscured, starburst galaxy nicknamed “Shadow Blaster” as the source of high-energy neutrino event IC 210922A. Published in Nature Astronomy on June 17, 2026, the study suggests that dense, dust-rich star-forming regions—rather than just supermassive black holes—may account for up to 20% of the high-energy neutrino background observed across the Universe. … Read more
Researchers Detect Elusive Wind from Milky Way’s Central Black Hole Astronomers at Northwestern University have confirmed the existence of a persistent, energetic wind emanating from Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. By analyzing five years of data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) and NASA’s … Read more
A new theoretical model suggests that collapsing massive stars may form “gravastars”—ultra-compact objects containing a mini-universe—rather than black holes. Published in Physical Review D by Daniel Jampolski and Professor Luciano Rezzolla of Goethe University Frankfurt, the research provides a dynamic solution to Albert Einstein’s equations of General Relativity, proposing that dark energy within a core … Read more
New research suggests that the Jellyfish Nebula and the supernova remnant G189.6+3.3 are the remnants of stellar siblings that detonated thousands of years apart. According to findings presented by researchers at the 248th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, these two explosions originated from a binary star system, where the first star’s death propelled its … Read more
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb and Hubble Space Telescopes have reclassified Terzan 5, once considered a globular star cluster, as a “bulge fossil fragment” containing four distinct stellar populations. According to research presented by Giorgia Zullo at the 248th American Astronomical Society meeting and published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, the object’s ability to retain gas … Read more
Researchers have successfully used transfer learning to reduce the computational cost of simulating complex cosmological models by more than ten times, according to a study published in the Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment. By pretraining neural networks on standard ΛCDM models before introducing complex physics like massive neutrinos, scientists can accelerate the search … Read more
Researchers at the Institute of Theoretical Physics at Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) have developed a new detector-based framework to accurately measure gravitational waves within an evolving, expanding universe. By defining the signal through the physical response of test masses rather than abstract mathematical coordinates, this method allows scientists to distinguish genuine cosmic waves from the … Read more