Dancing dwarf galaxies predict the Milky Way’s future
A high-resolution color image showing the central galaxies NGC5713 and NGC5719 taken by the Hyper Suprime-Cam at the…
A giant virus wags its tail
Tail attachment. Scanning (SEM) and transmission (TEM) electron micrographs of the Pelagodinium PelV1 system at the early stages…
A ‘mysterious giant’ behind binary black holes? Astronomers uncover first evidence of a third compact object
Gravitational wave events released by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration. Credit: SHAO The binary black holes in the universe are…
Some young suns align with their planet-forming disks, others are born tilted
Artist’s rendering of a young star surrounded by its protoplanetary disk, with elements furnished by NASA’s Hubble Telescope.…
Archaeologists find oldest evidence of humans on ‘Hobbit’s’ island neighbor—who they were remains a mystery
Stone tools were excavated from Calio, Sulawesi, and dated to over 1.04 million years ago. The scale bars…
Ocean sediments might support theory that comet impact triggered Younger Dryas cool-off
Examples of Fe-rich and silica-rich impact microspherules (a and b) and metallic dust particles (MDPs; c and d)…
A new open-source program for quantum physics helps researchers obtain results in record time
Schematic of the RK4 steps. Dark green objects mark real or complex buffers while blue objects mark the…
Cloud–cloud collision sparks active star formation in Milky Way
The distribution of the two colliding molecular clouds (with blue and red indicating the blue-shifted and red-shifted clouds,…
A monster at the dawn of time
Artist representation of CAPERS-LRD-z9, home to the earliest confirmed black hole. The supermassive black hole at its center…
Perseverance rover captures Mars vista as clear as day
Captured at a location called Falbreen, on May 26, 2025, 96 images were stitched together to create this…
Threshold effects enable self-stopping robot swarms
A bunch of microrobots scurrying around at the Institute of Theoretical Physics II of the Heinrich Heine University…
New model explains plutonium’s peculiar behavior
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Normally, materials expand when heated. Higher temperatures cause atoms to vibrate, bounce around and…