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…
Fast blue optical transients still defy explanation
Sky surveys keep catching a kind of cosmic explosion that astronomers can’t explain. They call them fast blue…
Baby T-Rexes Were Cat-Sized and Already Ready to Hunt
New research finds that Tyrannosaurus young were leaving the nest and actively hunting not long after hatching. Credit:…
GenCost: The seven caveats behind CSIRO’s “No Progress” scenario – and why it isn’t cheaper
CSIRO recently published its GenCost 2025-26 report, estimating the cost of various electricity technologies. This year’s report echoed…
Cold radioactive molecules offer a tabletop route to new physics – Physics World
Cold radioactive molecules offer a tabletop route to new physics – Physics World Skip to main content Discover…
NASA SVS | NASA’s Roman Space Telescope’s Transport from Goddard to Kennedy
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was assembled and tested at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,…
Into Totality: Our Guide to the August 12th Total Solar Eclipse
Get ready for the only total solar eclipse of 2026 Where will you be on August 12th? Many…
A Distant Primordial Object May Be a Newborn Little Red Dot
The infrared-sensitive James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been doing multiple surveys of the very distant Universe, digging…
Astronomers find four Barnard’s Star planets to be small, uninhabitable, with years lasting only days
Barnard’s Star has four small rocky planets packed extremely close to the star.Their atmospheres probably disappeared billions of…
Salmon Tasmania ad cleared to run after Ad Standards appeal win
Salmon Tasmania’s “Tasmanians Depend on Salmon” campaign included a commercial featuring the owner of an underwater robotics company,…
ISS meets Venus in incredible daylight photo photo of the day for July 28, 2026
Venus beside the International Space Station as captured by photographer A.J. Smadi from Edmonds, Washington on July 18,…
Superconductivity under pressure in a van der Waals heavy-fermion metal
Yankowitz, M., Ma, Q., Herrero, P. J. & LeRoy, B. J. van der Waals heterostructures combining graphene and…