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A research team led by Rice University physicist Frank Geurts has successfully measured the temperature of quark-gluon plasma ...

O'Grady and her colleagues found no sign of X-rays in the Chandra data. Even assuming that the wind gusting out of Betelgeuse ...

On July 2, 2025, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (Fermi-GBM) captured around three hours' worth of signals that appeared ...

The isotopic ratio of sulfur-33 on the moon differs from that of Earth. Did the moon's sulfur instead come from the impactor ...

A network of optical cavities could be used to detect gravitational waves (GWs) in an unexplored range of frequencies, ...

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In a recent breakthrough, the XRISM mission has uncovered a puzzling cosmic phenomenon—a slow, dense wind emanating from the ...

Sealed Apollo 17 samples analyzed with new techniques reveal that the Moon’s interior contains sulfur isotopes unlike those ...

XRISM found a slow, thick wind from a neutron star, pointing to temperature as the key driver of cosmic wind behavior. The ...