SuperCDMS SNOLAB Starts Its Dark Matter Hunt
Reported by Universe Today
The search for dark matter has reached another milestone - in this case the start of science for one of the world’s newest detectors. The Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) SNOLAB just began its scientific operations in Ontario, and over the ...
- By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
- On: Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:30 +0000
Astronomers Might Use Manganese to Clock the Age of Galaxies
Reported by Universe Today
Keeping track of time in the universe is a difficult task. It’s constantly evolving and changing, and studying events that happened billions of years ago, while possible, isn’t exactly easy. A recent paper in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomic...
- By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
- On: Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:47 +0000
Roman space telescope has launched! You can adopt a pixel
Reported by Space | EarthSky
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched on August 30 from the Kennedy Space Center. Want to add your name to a pixel? Find out how here!
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- By: Space | EarthSky
- On: Wed, 02 Sep 2026 11:00 +0000
Scientists Intrigued by a Surprising Result in the Search for Dark Matter
Reported by Universe Today
Dark matter is the invisible stuff that accounts for roughly 85% of the mass in the universe, and for decades, physicists have been trying to figure out what it's made of. Now an experimental facility located nearly a mile below ground in South Dakota has ...
- By: Alan Boyle (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/cosmiclog)
- On: Wed, 02 Sep 2026 03:16 +0000
Distant Quasars Provide Crucial Link In Understanding Earliest Supermassive Black Holes
Reported by Universe Today
Extreme quasars near the dawn of time are giving astrophysicists clues to the formation of supermassive black holes....
- By: Bruce Dorminey (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/bruce)
- On: Wed, 02 Sep 2026 02:47 +0000
Is a Sea Change Coming for New Horizons Heliospheric Science?
Reported by Universe Today
If you visit the New Horizons mission website frequently, you'll notice that the spacecraft continues to generate excellent science as it plows its way through the Kuiper Belt. It recently woke up from its latest hibernation period in good health and is tr...
- By: Carolyn Collins Petersen (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/cc-petersen)
- On: Wed, 02 Sep 2026 01:03 +0000




