By Brian Koberlein – March 31, 2026 Collected at: https://www.universetoday.com/articles/a-new-theory-connects-early-cosmic-inflation-and-quantum-gravity Modern cosmology is built upon three theoretical pillars: special relativity, Newtonian gravity, and quantum mechanics. Each is supported by a wealth of experimental evidence, but each describes the physical world in a way that contradicts the other two. Quantum theory describes the tiny. Objects driven […]

By Mark Thompson – March 30, 2026 Collected at: https://www.universetoday.com/articles/mars-was-once-a-world-of-rain Mars is our nearest planetary neighbour and the world humans are most likely to set foot on beyond the Moon. The fourth planet from the Sun, it sits about 225 million kilometres from Earth on average, close enough that we have sent dozens of spacecraft […]

By University of Oxford March 25, 2026 Collected at: https://scitechdaily.com/cosmic-blinking-lights-could-expose-hidden-supermassive-black-hole-pairs/ A new study proposes an innovative way to uncover elusive supermassive black hole binaries by tracking subtle, repeating flashes of starlight. Researchers from Oxford University and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) have outlined a new way to uncover one of the universe’s most elusive phenomena: tightly […]

By University of Warwick March 26, 2026 Collected at: https://scitechdaily.com/ai-uncovers-hidden-signals-discovering-dozens-of-new-alien-planets/ By applying machine learning to vast TESS datasets, researchers have built one of the most precise catalogs of nearby exoplanets to date. Astronomers at the University of Warwick have confirmed more than 100 exoplanets, including 31 newly identified worlds, using a new artificial intelligence system applied to data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite […]

By University of Pittsburgh March 26, 2026 Collected at: https://scitechdaily.com/new-discovery-challenges-80-year-old-theory-about-turbulence/ Turbulent flows, long thought to follow fixed rules of energy transfer, may be more flexible than previously believed. Anyone who has watched waves crash along a shoreline has seen turbulence in action. Beneath the surface, water rarely moves in a straight line. Instead, it twists […]

By Mark Thompson – March 29, 2026 Collected at: https://www.universetoday.com/articles/how-the-solar-wind-really-works The Sun, our nearest star, never stops breathing. Every second of every day it exhales a vast stream of charged particles that sweeps outward through the Solar System at hundreds of kilometres per second. We call it the solar wind, and while that name conjures […]

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc – March 28, 2026 Collected at: https://www.universetoday.com/articles/mars-like-worlds-near-m-dwarfs-may-lose-air-in-millions-of-years The criteria for finding an Earth-like planet unofficially comes down to two things: water and the habitable zone. But a phenomenon known as atmospheric escape often “escapes” the minds of many astronomy fans, and it turns out that atmospheric escape is one of the […]

By Mark Thompson – March 27, 2026 Collected at: https://www.universetoday.com/articles/a-signal-from-before-the-stars Black holes that are formed when massive stars die in spectacular supernova explosions, typically weigh several times as much as the Sun. But last November, LIGO, the gravitational wave detector that has been listening to the universe’s most violent events since 2015, picked up a […]

March 26, 2026 by Krystal Kasal, Phys.org Collected at: https://phys.org/news/2026-03-earth-magnetic-field-previously-undetected.html High-energy particles called galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) bombard unprotected objects in space, often causing damage. Earth, however, is protected by its magnetic field, which creates a protective shell around the planet that can deflect dangerous charged particles, like GCRs. The moon is known to pass […]

By Andy Tomaswick – March 26, 2026 Collected at: https://www.universetoday.com/articles/how-did-venus-become-a-hellscape-234000-simulations-reveal-four-possible-paths Venus is increasingly becoming a touch point for our studies of the exoplanets, as missions like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)and the upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) begin to characterize rocky exoplanets around other stars. Understanding the difference between the evolutions of Venus and […]