Science29 October 2026Rubin Observatory spots dwarf planet candidate beyond PlutoThe Vera C. Rubin Observatory has found 2026 ED138, a possible dwarf planet about 46 times Earth's distance from the sun.
Science28 October 2026Webb links interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS to worlds beyond Neptune by ice signaturesA Webb study found 3I/ATLAS sheds tiny water ice and dust aggregates similar to worlds beyond Neptune.
Science27 October 2026Harvard-Smithsonian team builds Lumina early-universe simulationHarvard-Smithsonian researchers built Lumina, a simulation covering the universe's first 2 billion years at record scale.
Science25 October 2026Researchers list 27 exoplanet targets for the Lazuli Space TelescopeResearchers have proposed 27 exoplanet targets for the coronagraph on the privately funded Lazuli Space Telescope.
Science23 October 2026Paper links gravitational wave background to quasar luminosity functionsA new arXiv paper fits gravitational wave background black hole mass functions to quasar luminosity data across redshifts 0.2 to 6.2.
Science22 October 2026Aurora supercomputer runs two of the largest cosmological simulations yetArgonne researchers used the Aurora supercomputer to simulate 13.4 trillion dark matter particles in two record-scale runs.
Science21 October 2026NASA picks GIMLI to test whether Marius Hills Pit opens into a lava tubeNASA chose the GIMLI instrument suite to check whether a lunar pit in the Marius Hills leads to a lava tube.
Science20 October 2026Tsinghua students plan low-cost smallsat to fly past Apophis in 2029Tsinghua's student-led START mission would launch in early 2028 and fly within 7 km of Apophis in April 2029.
Science19 October 2026Sydney PhD student produces first comprehensive classification and map of Martian soilsA University of Sydney PhD student has classified almost 800 million Martian locations into 2,000 soil classes.
Science18 October 2026Virgin Galactic and AFRL to gather space weather data on SpaceShip flightsVirgin Galactic announced a two-year agreement with AFRL to evaluate sensors for collecting space weather data on SpaceShip flights.
ScienceScience18 October 2026NASA develops solid-electrolyte battery for the cold of the lunar south poleNASA prototype solid-electrolyte cells operated down to minus 80 degrees Celsius in thermal vacuum tests at Langley.
Science16 October 2026Warwick astronomers find white dwarfs can glow green, pink and purpleUniversity of Warwick astronomers found white dwarfs can appear green, pink, cyan, yellow and purple, including the first green star.
Science15 October 2026Study finds highly magnetised white dwarfs could exceed the Chandrasekhar limitA new study shows how strongly magnetised white dwarfs could grow beyond the 1.44 solar mass Chandrasekhar limit.
Science14 October 2026Webb detects possible supernova in early universe days after explosionWebb has found a possible supernova, AT 2026abck, about four to 10 days after it exploded.
Science13 October 2026Webb and Hubble release images of a stellar nursery, a galaxy cluster and a nebulaWebb imaged the NGC 7129 stellar nursery and a galaxy cluster, while Hubble imaged an out-of-sync galaxy and a nebula.
ScienceScience13 October 2026Paper reports first 3D numerical-relativity simulations of wormhole binariesA new arXiv paper reports 3D simulations of Ellis-Bronnikov wormhole pairs, finding only opposite-signed pairs merge.
Science13 October 2026ALMA catches a dying star mid-transformationALMA data show a dying star mid-transformation, with a ring that records its final outburst.
Science13 October 2026Study shortens timeline for the end of some outer planets to about 1 billion yearsA new study puts the end of some outer planets at roughly 1 billion years, not a quintillion.
Science12 October 2026Slowest Radio Pulsar Found in Small Magellanic CloudA reanalysis of archival data revealed PSR J0103-72, the slowest radio pulsar in the Small Magellanic Cloud.
ScienceScience11 October 2026Astronomers confirm powerful radio galaxy from nearly 12.5 billion years agoFollow-up spectroscopy placed radio galaxy TXS 2354+015 at redshift 4.946, nearly 12.5 billion years in the past.
Science10 October 2026Webb observes extreme debris disks around young starsWebb observations of 21 extreme debris disks show the phase is rare, found in about 1% of young stars.
Science9 October 2026VLT astrometry finds sub-Jupiter planet candidate around nearby L dwarfEight years of Very Large Telescope monitoring point to a giant planet candidate around a nearby L dwarf.
Science8 October 2026ALMA astronomers find exotic methanol in planet-building zonesAstronomers using ALMA have found exotic methanol in zones where planets form.
Science7 October 2026Francis Halzen wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for IceCube neutrino workFrancis Halzen is the first sole winner of the physics prize since 1992, honoured for founding the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole.
Science6 October 2026Milky Way's black hole could be a natural particle accelerator, study findsA new paper says Sagittarius A* could fling protons to energies a thousand times beyond the Large Hadron Collider.
Science6 October 2026SMILE starts science and returns its first view of the northern auroraThe ESA and Chinese Academy of Sciences mission has finished commissioning and begun studying Earth's magnetosphere.
Science6 October 2026Iron in cosmic rays can trigger cancer in cells it never touchesResearchers found that cells hit by cosmic ray iron ions push their neighbours toward tumours, and they found a way to block it.
