Science & Research

A 30-fold expansion of the solar-twin catalog shows the Sun migrated 10,000 light-years outward from the galactic center between four and six billion years ago, carried by the forming central bar.

Researchers use pressure quenching to lock in a record superconducting transition temperature of 151 K at ambient pressure, surpassing a 33-year-old record.

The CMS Collaboration at CERN has detected wakes left by quarks speeding through quark-gluon plasma, providing the first direct evidence that the matter filling the universe in its first microseconds behaved as a nearly perfect liquid rather than a gas of free particles.

The ACES survey stitched together ALMA's biggest mosaic to date, revealing dozens of molecules and intricate gas filaments across the galaxy's Central Molecular Zone.

Paleontologists report paired discoveries from China that rewrite the early chapter of bony fish evolution and, by extension, the evolutionary lineage leading to all living vertebrates including humans.

James Webb Space Telescope identifies galaxy COSMOS2020-635829 at redshift z=1.156, the most distant jellyfish galaxy known, revealing cluster environments were stripping galaxies far earlier than models predicted.

A team using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope processed 600 million spectra to build the first large-scale intensity map of Lyman-alpha emissions from 9 to 11 billion years ago, exposing faint galaxies and intergalactic gas invisible to conventional surveys.

A Spanish research team synthesized the hormone therapy drug dimestrol directly from methane using an iron-based photocatalyst, opening a path to converting natural gas into high-value medicines.

ETH Zurich and University of Basel researchers permanently reversed a ferromagnet's polarity using only laser light in twisted bilayer molybdenum ditelluride, published in Nature.

South Africa's MeerKAT radio telescope has discovered a record-breaking hydroxyl gigamaser in a merging galaxy system, shattering the previous distance record by a factor of two.

Six months of observations of the third interstellar object ever detected have uncovered water, methane, and hydrogen cyanide in its coma--and a Jupiter flyby on March 16 could yield the closest-ever look at an interstellar visitor.

A 15-hour JWST observation has produced the first three-dimensional map of Uranus's ionosphere, confirming decades-long atmospheric cooling and exposing how the planet's tilted, offset magnetic field sculpts complex auroral structures unlike any seen elsewhere in the solar system.