December 11, 2025 by Lindsey Valich, University of Rochester Collected at: https://phys.org/news/2025-12-earth-atmosphere-human-life-moon.html The moon’s surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth’s atmosphere have landed in the lunar soil, creating a possible source of life-sustaining substances for future astronauts. But scientists have only recently begun […]

By Paul Sutter – December 12, 2025 Collected at: https://www.universetoday.com/articles/is-the-big-bang-a-myth-part-1-creation-stories (This is Part 1 of a series exploring the mythic side of the Big Bang!) Let’s say you are transported back in time to some ancient culture. And along the way you somehow forget everything you knew about modern cosmology (don’t worry about the details, […]

By Matthew Williams – December 11, 2025 Collected at: https://www.universetoday.com/articles/did-life-begin-in-prebiotic-surface-gels How did life begin on Earth? Based on studies of fossilized bacteria, scientists theorize that life first emerged on Earth over 4 billion years ago as simple, single-celled organisms. Over time, these organisms evolved to incorporate photosynthesis and sexual reproduction, eventually giving rise to more […]

Tanya Weaver Wed 10 Dec 2025 Collected at: https://eandt.theiet.org/2025/12/10/work-begins-building-most-accurate-map-radio-sky-ever-made A detailed new model of the ‘radio sky’ could offer fresh insights into the first stars and galaxies and point to new discoveries in physics, according to researchers at the University of Manchester. UnifySky, a five-year research project based at the university, has received €2.25m in […]

By Evan Gough – December 10, 2025 Collected at: https://www.universetoday.com/articles/a-supermassive-black-hole-that-behaves-like-the-sun Astronomers have found a unique blast coming from a distant supermassive black hole (SMBH). The SMBH is in a barred spiral galaxy about 135 million light-years away named NGC 3783. The Hubble recently imaged this face-on galaxy, showing its beautiful spiral arms and its center, […]

By Paul Sutter – December 09, 2025 Collected at: https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-primordial-black-hole-saga-part-2-not-your-normal-black-holes (This is Part 2 of a series on primordial black holes. Check out Part 1 here!) At the same time that Vera Rubin was turning cosmology upside down with conclusive evidence for the existence of dark matter, Stephen Hawking was doing…Stephen Hawking things. Which at the […]

By Brian Koberlein – December 09, 2025 Collected at: https://www.universetoday.com/articles/what-do-super-jupiters-look-like Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It’s also one of the largest planets in the Universe. There are planets out there with much more mass, but thanks to gravity, they are generally more dense, not “bigger.” This raises an interesting question about massive exoplanets. […]

By Paul Sutter – December 08, 2025 Collected at: https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-primordial-black-hole-saga-part-1-the-dark-matter-mystery (This is Part 1 of a series on primordial black holes!) Do I really need to go over the evidence for dark matter again? Okay, fine, for those of you in the back who weren’t paying attention the first time. If you’re already down with […]

By New York University December 2, 2025 Collected at: https://scitechdaily.com/satellites-at-risk-new-ai-predicts-space-weather-with-breakthrough-accuracy/ Researchers created an AI system that can predict solar wind conditions up to four days before they reach Earth, offering far greater accuracy than current methods. By training the model on ultraviolet images of the Sun from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, the team uncovered patterns that help forecast potentially […]

By Frontiers December 5, 2025 Collected at: https://scitechdaily.com/how-earths-toughest-microbes-may-help-us-colonize-mars/ A new study reveals how specialized microbes might convert Martian regolith into durable, life-supporting structures. Since the moment humans first walked on the Moon, the idea of expanding civilization beyond Earth has guided major space agencies as they plan for long-term life beyond our planet. Of all […]