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This New Radio Telescope Just Lit Up The Universe Like Never Before With Stunning First Observations
1+ hour, 34+ min ago (345+ words) The Daily Galaxy The next-generation Very Large Array (ng VLA) prototype has officially gathered its first light, marking a historic moment in radio astronomy This milestone, reported by NSF NRAO, demonstrates that the ng VLA is moving beyond construction and…...
Biologist Picks Up What Looks Like a Jellyfish on a Japanese Beach and Finds a Species Never Seen Before
4+ hour, 4+ min ago (443+ words) What looked like a stranded jellyfish on Japan's coastline led to an unexpected discovery. Its true identity caught scientists off guard. The discovery began with a simple beach observation. On the sand at Gamo Beach, Yoshiki Ochiai found a strange,…...
Researchers Drilled Through 2 Miles of Antarctic Ice and Reached a Lake Sealed for 15 Million Years
2+ hour, 4+ min ago (524+ words) A giant lake the size of Lake Ontario has been hidden under Antarctica's ice for millions of years, and what scientists found above its waters hints at a world unlike any other on Earth. Lake Vostok is one of Earth's…...
Scientists Detect Magnetic Fields on Distant Gas Giants for the First Time
2+ hour, 34+ min ago (295+ words) Astronomers have found magnetic fields on seven distant gas giants, revealing new insights into exoplanet atmospheres and potential habitability. "What you would expect is that the planets with hotter temperatures would have stronger winds. The more energy you put into…...
Scientists Say A Cosmic Blazar Fired A Record-Breaking Particle At Earth
3+ hour, 34+ min ago (309+ words) The Daily Galaxy A particle detected in 2023 at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea may have originated from a cosmic particle accelerator billions of light-years away According to a new study in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, this…...
Paleontologists Unearth Europe's Best-Preserved 150-Million-Year-Old Stegosaur Skull
4+ hour, 34+ min ago (288+ words) A fragile skull buried for 150 million years has revealed a rare look at Europe's plated dinosaurs, with details scientists almost never get to see. Completeness alone would have made this find significant. What the researchers extracted from it goes further....
China Launches Long March 12 B Rocket Without Prior Safety Warnings, Marking A New Era In Satellite Deployment
5+ hour, 4+ min ago (394+ words) China's new Long March 12 B rocket lifts off without warning, signaling a leap in commercial satellite deployment and global space strategy....
Australian Microfossils Reveal Complex Cells Living on an Ancient Seafloor 1. 7 Billion Years Ago
22+ hour, 3+ min ago (692+ words) Tiny fossils locked in Australian mudstone point to a hidden chapter of early life, where complex cells survived in a place scientists did not expect. Stored in an open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, are trays of cylindrical rock cores…...
A Forgotten Notebook Helped Scientists Finally Identify a 55-Million-Year-Old Fossil Unlike Any Previously Found in New Zealand
20+ hour, 29+ min ago (400+ words) Researchers pulled this massive fossil from a cliff in 1999, its scientific story wasn't completed until a forgotten notebook surfaced. A fossil fish discovered on Pitt Island nearly 30 years ago has finally been fully identified thanks to a surprising source: the…...
NASA's Roman Telescope Will Explore Parts of the Milky Way No Planet Hunter Has Studied Before
21+ hour, 34+ min ago (686+ words) As NASA's Roman Telescope gets closer to launch, astronomers are preparing for what could become one of the largest planet searches ever conducted. NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is expected to dramatically expand the search for planets beyond our…...