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…
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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…
SpaceX launches its giant new rocket but a pair of explosions ends the second test flight
SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship launches for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023. Credit: AP Photo/Eric Gay SpaceX launched its mega rocket Starship but…
‘Bouncing’ comets could deliver building blocks for life to exoplanets
How did the molecular building blocks for life end up on Earth? One long-standing theory is that comets could have delivered them. Now, researchers from the University of Cambridge have…
Hubble images NGC 941, a spiral galaxy with an explosive past
A NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the spiral galaxy NGC 941. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Kilpatrick This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy NGC…
