Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team, including astronomer Alexander de la Vega of the University of California, Riverside, has discovered the most distant barred spiral galaxy similar…
Category: Space
Does spaceflight increase men’s risk of erectile dysfunction?
Credit: CC0 Public Domain During missions into space, astronauts are exposed to high levels of galactic cosmic radiation and weightlessness. Simulation experiments in male rats indicated that these aspects of…
A radically new view on dwarf galaxies surrounding the Milky Way
Dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC Commonly thought to be long-lived satellites of our galaxy, a new study now finds indications that most dwarf galaxies might, in fact,…
New Tools Will Help Study Quantum Chemistry Aboard the International Space Station
At NASA’s Cold Atom Lab facility aboard the International Space Station, an international team of scientists produced a quantum gas containing two types of atoms for the first time in…
In 2024, Space Coast gears up for most astronaut launches since ’09
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The business of sending humans into space has not yet risen to the levels seen during the space shuttle program, but 2024 could see the most…
Physicists answer question of Supergalactic Plane’s absent spiral galaxies
Artist concept of the Milky Way. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Astrophysicists say they have found an answer to why spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way are largely missing from a part…
Black Holes Could Come in ‘Perfect Pairs’ in an Ever Expanding Universe
Researchers from the University of Southampton, together with colleagues from the universities of Cambridge and Barcelona, have shown it’s theoretically possible for black holes to exist in perfectly balanced pairs…
Progress in Starship test launch, but ship and booster explode
SpaceX’s Starship rocket launches from Starbase during its second test flight in Boca Chica, Texas, on November 18, 2023. SpaceX on Saturday made progress in the second test launch of…
Galactic ‘Lightsabers’: Answering Longstanding Questions About Jets from Black Holes
The one thing everyone knows about black holes is that absolutely everything nearby gets sucked into them. Almost everything, it turns out. “Even though black holes are defined as objects from which…
How NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Will Chronicle the Active Cosmos
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will pair space-based observations with a broad field of view to unveil the dynamic cosmos in ways that have never been possible. “Roman will…
