Our Milky Way galaxy appears to have flipped 90 degrees long ago. But why?
The Milky Way’s spiral disk may have flipped over by 90 degrees, in turn altering the solar system’s orbit around the center of the galaxy. Spiral galaxies such as the…
Galaxy Mergers May Not Stifle Star Formation After All, According to Illustris TNG
In recent years, the idea that galaxy mergers are responsible for quenching galaxies has grown in importance. This paradigm says that galaxies merge, their black holes form a powerful quasar,…
A Distant Primordial Object May Be a Newborn Little Red Dot
Little Red Dots are among the most intriguing discoveries made to date by the infrared-sensitive James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). They are distant, small objects that appear red in the…
‘Silo’ season 3’s Ashley Zuckerman and Jessica Henwick share the secret to their on-screen chemistry (interview)
In Apple TV’s “Silo” season 3, we lunge back 352 years to the Before Times to see how the greatest engineering project in the history of the world began… and…
SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites to orbit in wake of Starship test flight (video)
SpaceX launched 24 more satellites for its Starlink network on Saturday (July 25), a day after demonstrating it could do the same on its next-gen rocket. A Falcon 9 rocket…
NASA selects successor to CAPSTONE lunar mission
NASA has selected Advanced Space to fly a successor to a cislunar smallsat mission that will test rendezvous and proximity operations around the moon. The post NASA selects successor to…
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Black Hole Collisions Tell a Tale of Repeating Mergers
A black hole merger is one of the Universe’s most energetic and massive events. During such a collision, two black holes orbit closer and closer until they collide and become…
Chang’e-6 Samples Provide an Ancient Record of the Moon’s Far Side.
The samples returned by the Chang’e-6 mission from the far side of the Moon reveal that the two hemispheres have had rather different experiences when it comes to space weather.
Starship in space! See highlights of SpaceX megarocket’s epic Flight 13 test launch (video)
The 13th test flight of SpaceX’s Starship megarocket went pretty well — and provided some amazing visuals, too. Flight 13 launched on Friday (July 24), sending the 408-foot-tall (124 meters)…