One of the Milky Way’s neighbour galaxies has been disrupting our galaxy’s disk for billions of…
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New Scientist – Space
The cosmic web that connects galaxies together may be spinning
Galaxies across the universe are connected by bridge-like filaments of matter that are the largest structures…
Exotic fifth state of matter made on the International Space Station
An instrument on board the International Space Station contains one of the coldest places in the…
Einstein was right about how extremely massive objects fall in space
A crucial pillar of Einstein’s theory of general relativity has been tested with the motion of…
Longest known comet tail stretched for over a billion kilometres
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft crossed paths with the elongated tail of a comet in 2002, picking up…
We can learn from ingenuity of space travel to solve problems on Earth
Endeavours such as space travel show what humanity can do when we pull together to achieve…
Why the universe I invented is right – but still not the final answer
Nobel prizewinner Jim Peebles introduced dark matter and dark energy into our standard model of the…
Mars’s moon Phobos may someday turn back into a ring around the planet
Mars’s moon Phobos may go through cycles where it is smashed up and becomes a ring…
The entire universe may once have been spinning all over the place
A strange asymmetry in the rotation of galaxies we see today hints that the early universe…
NASA and SpaceX launch astronauts into new era of private spaceflight
On 30 May, SpaceX and NASA pulled off a historic launch – the first private spacecraft…