New research shows how a galaxy’s surroundings influence its development. Its size, shape, and growth rate are all affected. It’s all based on “the finer details of the cosmic landscape.”
New research shows how a galaxy’s surroundings influence its development. Its size, shape, and growth rate are all affected. It’s all based on “the finer details of the cosmic landscape.”
Alignment of complexity slope intercepts with star formation in the universe. (a) Lines were generated with the slopes and intercepts at early features from Table 4. All intercepts are placed
In a clockwork predictable Universe, comets and how they will ultimately perform is always a big wild card. A new sungrazer comet discovered at the start of this year has
WASHINGTON — Redwire secured a $44 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to finish building a satellite designed to operate in very low Earth orbit, the company
In the vast tapestry of the universe, most galaxies shine brightly across cosmic time and space. Yet a rare class of galaxies remains nearly invisible—low-surface-brightness galaxies dominated by dark matter
Refractory ratio of stars compared to their exoplanets as populations. The host stars population is shown in red at contours of 1 and 2 σ values, while the dotted contour
On Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 27), a Russian Soyuz rocket launched three astronauts toward the International Space Station from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Everything seemed to go well. After all, the
Each year, SpaceNews selects the people, programs and technologies that have most influenced the direction of the space industry in the past year. Started in 2017, our annual celebration recognizes
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare — seen as the bright flash toward the upper middle — on Feb. 4, 2026. The image shows a
Giovanni Schiaparelli’s 1878 map of Mars has a distribution of features interpreted as land (white) and sea (blue). Many of the names Schiaparelli gave to locations on Mars are still






