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The LUX-ZEPLIN dark-matter experiment's main detector sits in a surface lab before its installation underground. (Credit: Matthew Kapust / Sanford Underground Research Facility)

LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter search flags a single unexplained event

LUX-ZEPLIN identified one anomalous event in 220 days of data.
The signal appeared in a low-background region where dark matter interactions are expected.
Researchers are not claiming discovery and plan peer-reviewed submission.

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DT Editorial Team·Sep 2, 2026·via universetoday.com

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US military bought commercial satellite images of alleged narco airstrips, Chinese naval fleet

GAO says Space Force still underuses commercial satellite intelligence

GAO says commercial satellite imagery has already delivered useful intelligence to the U.S. military.
The Space Force still hesitates to use more commercial data because of cost, restrictions, and access concerns.
Nearly $77 million was spent on commercial space services through the Global Data Marketplace from 2023 to 2025.
GAO recommends better communication around the working group that coordinates purchases.

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DT Editorial Team·Sep 2, 2026·via defenseone.com

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Turkish Minister of Industry and Technology, Mehmet Fatih Kacır, 3rd from left, signs the Artemis Accords for the Republic of Türkiye as NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, left, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Space and Environment Connor Tomlinson, and Turkish Space Agency President, Yusuf Kıraç, right, look on, Monday, August 31, 2026, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington.

Türkiye Joins Artemis Accords as 71st Signatory

Türkiye signed the Artemis Accords on August 31, 2026 at NASA headquarters in Washington.
NASA said the country became the 71st signatory to the international framework.
The announcement highlighted Türkiye’s 2024 human spaceflight milestones and its planned AYAP-1 lunar mission.
The signing comes ahead of the International Astronautical Congress in Antalya in October 2026.

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DT Editorial Team·Sep 1, 2026·via nasa.gov

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Artist's impression of the ESA JUICE spacecraft. (Credit: ESA)

JUICE Sets Up a Close Look at Jupiter’s Tiny Moon Kallichore

Researchers used Hubble and the Gran Telescopio de Canarias to refine Kallichore’s size and orbit.
Kallichore is about 3.8 kilometers wide and has a very low albedo of roughly 3.7 percent.
The updated orbit reduces positional uncertainty by about 80 percent ahead of JUICE’s planned 2031 Jupiter arrival.

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DT Editorial Team·Aug 31, 2026·via universetoday.com

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Our early Solar System likely had embedded magnetic fields at work even before the Sun was born, according to a new study. Credit: Hernán Cañellas

Ancient Meteorite Grains Point to Magnetism in the Sun’s Birth

Researchers studied calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions in the Antarctic meteorite DOM 08006.
The inclusions formed within the first 200,000 years of Solar System history.
Their magnetic imprint suggests magnetism likely helped shape the protosolar nebula.

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DT Editorial Team·Aug 30, 2026·via universetoday.com

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Researchers found this image of comet 28P/Neujmin in the archives of Japan's Subaru Telescope and its Subaru Prime Focus Camera (Suprime-Cam). It turned out to be from almost the perfect angle to study the comet from. It's a naked comet without a coma, and these lucky observations gave astronomers a great look at its surface. Image Credit: NAOJ

Subaru archive catches a rare ‘naked’ comet at just the right angle

Researchers found archival Subaru Telescope images of comet 28P/Neujmin at an unusually favorable viewing angle.
Because the comet was more than 10 AU from the Sun, coma contamination was minimized and the nucleus could be studied more directly.
The result shows how observatory archives can produce new science years after the original observations were made.

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DT Editorial Team·Aug 28, 2026·via universetoday.com

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An artist's concept of a generic starshade. Credit: Public Domain

NASA-backed starshade concept aims to make rocky exoplanets visible from Earth

NASA-backed HOEE would pair an orbital starshade with giant ground telescopes.
The design aims to block starlight before it reaches the atmosphere, enabling direct imaging of nearby rocky worlds.
The concept targets planetary systems within about 20 light-years and is seeking further NIAC support.

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DT Editorial Team·Aug 25, 2026·via universetoday.com

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A Swinburne astronomer may have just confirmed one of the quirkiest aspects of quantum mechanics: that seemingly empty space can alter the behavior of light. Credit: NASA.

Magnetar Observations Point to Long-Sought Quantum Effect in Empty Space

Researchers used the magnetar 1E 1547.0–5408 to look for a long-predicted quantum effect.
The observations are described as possible first evidence of vacuum birefringence.
The finding would show that empty space can change light under extreme magnetic fields.

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DT Editorial Team·Aug 24, 2026·via universetoday.com

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Bright Perseids Illuminate Sweden's Night Sky in Stunning Composite

Composite image from Sweden captures two bright Perseid meteors and a watery reflection.
Taken near the peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower on August 12, 2026.
The shower is caused by debris from comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle.
New Moon conditions provided dark skies, enhancing visibility.

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DT Editorial Team·Aug 15, 2026·via science.nasa.gov

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Sunset over the present-day main island of Malta. Credit: Bruce Dorminey

Ancient Maltese seafarers likely used stars to navigate

A Universe Today report says Malta’s first settlers likely needed celestial navigation for the crossing from Sicily.
The article links that idea to debates over astronomical alignments at megalithic sites such as Tarxien.
The case suggests Malta’s Neolithic culture combined practical seafaring knowledge with a sophisticated sky-focused worldview.

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DT Editorial Team·Aug 10, 2026·via universetoday.com

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A group of undergraduate students stand in a line on a white ground tarp outside a large warehouse building, watching a worker hold a tethered white scientific balloon. The students, wearing white hard hats and yellow safety vests

NASA Balloon Program Sends Louisiana Student Payloads Near Space

NASA’s 2026 LaACES campaign launched 11 student-built payloads from the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Texas.
The program recorded its 74th and 75th launches in a collaboration with the Louisiana Space Grant Consortium.
Teams pursued experiments in areas including atmospheric science, cosmic rays, ultraviolet measurement, and solar cell performance.
Students advanced through design reviews modeled on NASA’s engineering lifecycle before being cleared for launch.

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DT Editorial Team·Aug 4, 2026·via nasa.gov

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When haze built up in the atmosphere of Archean Earth, the young planet might have looked like this artist's interpretation - a pale orange dot. A team led by Goddard scientists thinks the haze was self-limiting, cooling the surface by about 36 degrees Fahrenheit (20 Kelvins) – not enough to cause runaway glaciation. The team’s modeling suggests that atmospheric haze might be helpful for identifying earthlike exoplanets that could be habitable.
Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Francis Reddy

Apollo Moon Samples May Reveal Early Earth’s Air

A researcher is using Apollo lunar samples to study gases that escaped from ancient Earth.
The method could help reconstruct atmospheric conditions during the Archean Eon.
Early results support the idea that Earth’s atmosphere was more sulfur rich 3.5 billion years ago.

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DT Editorial Team·Aug 3, 2026·via universetoday.com

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Asteroid (44) Nysa imaged with the SHARK-VIS instrument on the Large Binocular Telescope. The tiny moon S/2026 (44) 1, arrowed, was pulled from the asteroid's glare using techniques borrowed from exoplanet hunting (Credit : SHARK-VIS/LBT Observatory)

Asteroid Nysa may be the first known contact trinary

New adaptive-optics images suggest asteroid Nysa may consist of three joined lobes.
Researchers also detected a small moon orbiting Nysa using high-contrast imaging.
The moon could help measure Nysa’s mass and test whether the three-lobe interpretation is correct.

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DT Editorial Team·Aug 1, 2026·via universetoday.com

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Image of Pluto's moon, Charon, taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015. (Credit: NASA/JHU-APL/SRI)

Charon’s Mountains Suggest a Much Faster Ancient Spin

Researchers modeled Charon’s early evolution using surface geology as a constraint.
The study suggests Charon once rotated every 14.3 hours, versus 6.4 days today.
A 30-36 km ice shell and early despinning may explain faults and terrain contrasts.
The findings could help scientists interpret other outer solar system icy moons.

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DT Editorial Team·Aug 1, 2026·via universetoday.com

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Schematic illustration of the hierarchical structure of the Universe, from a galaxy group (a collection of galaxies) to an individual galaxy and the supermassive black hole at its center. Although a black hole is more than 100 million times smaller than the radius of its host galaxy, it plays a crucial role in the galaxy's central region. ©Tohoku University

Quasar Winds Reach Far Beyond Host Galaxy, XRISM Study Finds

Astronomers studied quasar H1821+643, about 3.4 billion light-years away.
Using XRISM, the team tracked ionized iron in hot gas around the quasar.
The observations suggest the quasar’s winds transport energy to about 300,000 light-years.
The finding points to black hole feedback affecting a wider galaxy-group environment than previously thought.

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DT Editorial Team·Jul 31, 2026·via universetoday.com

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An artist’s impression of the galaxy CRISTAL-02, with a huge plume of cold gas extending away from it. This plume is almost as long as the galaxy itself, which is a telltale sign that gas is being driven out of the galaxy. Credit Joshua Worth via Creative Commons CC-BY license
Licence type Attribution (CC BY 4.0)

Astronomers trace early galaxy shutdowns to powerful gas outflows

Astronomers studied the young galaxy CRISTAL-02 using JWST and ALMA.
They observed a large plume of cold gas extending away from the galaxy.
The outflow suggests mergers can trigger winds that remove star-forming fuel.
The mechanism could explain why some massive early galaxies became quiescent quickly.

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DT Editorial Team·Jul 31, 2026·via universetoday.com

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This artist's concept shows what the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system may look like, based on available data about the planets' diameters, masses and distances from the host star, as of February 2018.
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Astrobiology is turning exoplanets into a mirror for Earth

Astrobiologists are using exoplanets as comparative models for Earth’s evolution.
Researchers emphasized that habitable-zone planets are not necessarily habitable worlds.
Scarce James Webb time has made Trappist-1 a priority target for atmospheric study.

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DT Editorial Team·Jul 29, 2026·via universetoday.com

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One of the JWST's confounding Little Red Dots is in the left panel, while the globular cluster (GC) 47 Tucanae occupies the right panel. Could these objects be the same thing at different points in evolution? Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Dale Kocevski/Colby College, ESO.

JWST’s Little Red Dots May Be Forming Globular Clusters

A new paper proposes that some little red dots seen by JWST are globular clusters in formation.
The objects appeared in large numbers roughly 600 million years after the Big Bang and declined by about 1.5 billion years after it.
The hypothesis could connect a mystery in early-universe observations with the long-standing question of how globular clusters formed.

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DT Editorial Team·Jul 28, 2026·via universetoday.com

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Artist's illustration of the sub-Neptune exoplanet, TOI-270 d. (Credit: NASA)

JWST study suggests mini-Neptunes may hide deep water

Researchers modeled TOI-270 d and found water may separate from hydrogen instead of remaining well mixed.
The study suggests JWST atmospheric observations could miss deeper water reservoirs on some sub-Neptunes.
The finding challenges simpler assumptions about the internal structure of one of the galaxy’s most common planet classes.

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DT Editorial Team·Jul 26, 2026·via universetoday.com

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Astronomers found Omega Centauri’s first stellar-mass black hole, which has a visible star companion that is shown in greater detail. Credit: ESA/NASA/MPIA/STScI

Hubble and Webb find Omega Centauri’s first stellar-mass black hole

Astronomers confirmed the first stellar-mass black hole in Omega Centauri.
The result relied on Hubble data from 2002 to 2023 plus Webb NIRCam observations.
The object, oMEGACat BH-2, was found through astrometric measurements of a visible star’s motion.
The discovery supports models suggesting Omega Centauri should host many stellar-mass black holes.

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DT Editorial Team·Jul 24, 2026·via universetoday.com

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