The journey of galaxy clusters in billions of years
We can now see the movement of the many galaxies living in nearby superclusters.
View ArticleThe Milky Way collided with a galaxy in the past — and this shaped our galaxy
With the Gaia observatory data, we know a recent merge happened in our galaxy.
View ArticleAnnie Jump Cannon: the legend behind stellar classification
A word on the Life and career of one of the first dames of modern astronomy
View ArticleNew map of the universe reveals 4.4 million radio sources in the northern sky
Nearly 4.4 million radio source were detected by the pan-European telescope LOFAR in almost 144 days.
View ArticleEunice Foote: the first person to measure the impact of carbon dioxide on...
Eunice Foote was the first to discover that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere.
View ArticleHow the cosmic web makes and breaks the formation of new stars
A recent study shows that dense regions help stars lose gas quickly, inhibiting star formation.
View ArticleNothing to talk about: the many mysteries of vacuums
A vacuum is not exactly empty in quantum mechanics terms. It is also a headache for physicists.
View ArticleCan planets orbit multiple star systems like in Star Wars?
Planets in binary, tetranary, octonary systems. Are they possible?
View ArticleThe unlikely story of neutrino research involves ultrapure water, shifting...
Did you know neutrinos have different flavors?
View ArticleA hundred years ago, a physicist tried to convince the world the universe is...
He thought Einstein was wrong in one regard -- and he was right.
View ArticleHow JWST is showing us the earliest galaxies in the universe — and...
What is so important about the James Webb’s big old galaxies?
View ArticleThe glory: the science behind a rare optical phenomenon
It's time for some glorious science.
View ArticleChladni figures: the mysterious patterns in ‘The Rings of Power’ title...
Science meets fantasy.
View ArticleWhat’s the brightest star from Earth, and how do we measure it?
Some stars are brighter than others, but why? Size and distance matter.
View ArticleWhy did Einstein find quantum mechanics debatable?
Entanglement and uncertainty were not his favorite concepts.
View ArticleWhat are lenticular galaxies?
Different from the other types of galaxies, lenticular galaxies are a puzzle in terms of how they were formed.
View ArticleWhere is the center of the universe (or is there even one)?
The universe does not have a center point. How is this possible?
View ArticleThe Magnus effect: the physical principle feared by goalkeepers
Kicking a ball and making sure it spins and deflects from the original path requires practice. But what's the physics behind it?
View ArticleEmmy Noether: the woman who developed one of the most beautiful theorems in...
Emmy Noether revolutionized our understanding of the universe by linking the concept of symmetry to the fundamental laws that conserve quantities like energy and momentum.
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