55+ min ago   (45+ words) Charles Schambeau (IMAGE) EurekAlert! Charles Schambeau, a research associate professor at UCF’s Florida Space Institute, is studying the unusual activity of Centaur 450P/LONEOS to better understand how these distant objects evolve. More on this News Release Researchers study a centaur…...

10+ hour, 41+ min ago   (188+ words) SAN ANTONIO — September 1, 2026 — New Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) modeling, conducted in collaboration with scientists at the University of Arizona, shows fundamental differences in how the Moon may have formed from the giant impact that created the Earth-Moon system. The new…...

3+ hour, 46+ min ago   (654+ words) Astronomers at University of Central Florida are using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and the Gemini Observatory to study a distant icy object that may offer a rare look at how centaurs evolve into active comets image: Charles Schambeau, a…...

3+ hour, 46+ min ago   (552+ words) The team behind the detection; from left to right: Dr Zhaoting Chen (Researcher at University of Edinburgh, graduated with PhD from University of Manchester in 2024), Prof Mário Santos (professor at University of Western Cape), Dr Laura Wolz (Reader at University…...

22+ hour, 51+ min ago   (370+ words) image: FAST and DESI reshape our view of cosmic evolution view more Credit: Image by National Astronomical Observatories of China and Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of CAS The universe has been having fewer and fewer stellar “babies.” Over the past 4.5 billion…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (420+ words) image: False-color, infrared images from the JWST of dual LRDs created using images filtered at wavelengths 1.5 µm, 2.8 µm, and 4.4 µm. The white line in the lower right corner shows the length for about 5000 light years. view more Credit: COSMOS-Web / Tanaka…...

3+ day, 59+ min ago   (60+ words) (IMAGE) EurekAlert! At Hasanuddin University, Indonesia, Prof. Dahlang Tahir, and his team are designing advanced nanoscale materials to develop sustainable solutions that impact health and society. "Bion-RG for Life" by Material & Energy Laboratory via Bionanocomposite Research Group, Hasanuddin University More…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (144+ words) image: Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) aerobraking for spacecraft on reentry. By generating a magnetic field, the superheated plasma at the surface of a vessel can be pushed further away while generating an increased aerodynamic drag. view more To see it at work,…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1425+ words) With the continuous advancement of spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technology, L-band SAR has come to play an increasingly important role in Earth observation; however, its imaging, interferometric, and polarimetric performance are susceptible to ionospheric disturbances. In equatorial nighttime data,…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (25+ words) siv_still_frame (IMAGE) EurekAlert! Illustration of a silicon-vacancy center in a diamond crystal lattice. Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences...