Science & Space News: Discoveries, Astronomy and Research

Paris Saint-Germain beat Barcelona 4-2 in a Champions League match on Tuesday, Oct. 20, but the win came at a cost. Winger Khvicha Kvaratskhelia ruptured the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in his right knee, and the club said he will have

The James Webb Space Telescope has released a new image of NGC 7129, a stellar nursery about 3,300 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cepheus. Thick clouds of dust normally hide the youngest stars there, but Webb's infrared instrum

Physicists at Northwestern University in the United States say they have kept a single positron, the antimatter counterpart of the electron, confined in a cryogenic, superconducting vacuum trap for months, according to ScienceAlert. The res

A thin white cloud that appears every summer day near a giant Martian volcano may form in a way never before documented in nature: water vapor freezing directly into ice without any dust grain to cling to. That is the proposal in a new pape

A Russian satellite known as Kosmos 2612 made a very close approach to a commercial American Earth-observing spacecraft, ICEYE-X36, between Oct. 15 and Oct. 19, according to Space.com. At one point the two craft may have been separated by o

Northern Hemisphere skywatchers have an easy target on autumn evenings: Capella, a bright star that flashes red, green and blue as it hangs low over the horizon. According to EarthSky, it is the brightest star in the constellation Auriga th

Physicists have found a new way for a time crystal to form: not by pushing a material with an outside rhythm, but by letting competing vibrations settle into a shared beat on their own. ScienceAlert reported that an international team led b

A computer simulation suggests that when two lighter-than-usual neutron stars collide, the fluid at the contact point becomes turbulent and can boost the magnetic field more than 300 times, Universe Today reported. The result points to a wa

A research team led by scientists in Japan has produced a global map of where rain on early Mars may have delivered formaldehyde, a simple molecule that can feed the chemistry leading to life. According to Universe Today, the map is meant t

Australian researchers say a distinct form of depression tied to the body's internal clock may affect roughly one in four people with severe or recurrent illness, and that it may respond poorly to standard antidepressants. The proposed subt

A puzzle that has lingered at Westminster Abbey for roughly 150 years may be close to an answer. A skeleton buried in a Roman-era stone coffin, with a medieval cross carved on its lid, was almost certainly an abbot, according to a new study

A three-page manuscript by Erwin Schrödinger, left unpublished in an Austrian library for more than 80 years, has resurfaced and adds a new chapter to the history of quantum physics. Physics historian Flavio Del Santo of the University of G