6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (500+ words) Astronomers monitoring an unusual young neutron star report a stellar surprise after years of apparent silence, as the space object has displayed sudden changes in its rotation, including one large event they characterize as a “glitch” that could point to…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (647+ words) Now that NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is on its way toward its Lagrange Point 2 (L2) destination, more of its mission goals are coming into focus, including the possibility that it could detect an Earth-like planet orbiting a star like…...

2+ week, 17+ hour ago   (682+ words) A controversy over one of modern cosmology’s foundational ideas has been renewed, with new research that points to critical issues in a recent analysis defending the view that our universe is expanding. Late last year, a research team at Yonsei…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (631+ words) When NASA announced that the new Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will perform its science duties from a point in space known as Lagrange 2, many observers noted that the space agency’s current state-of-the-art space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope,…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (1326+ words) A spacecraft propelled by a subluminal warp drive would cause an extremely bright glow if it passed through Earth’s atmosphere, according to findings detailed in a new study. “Warp drives are a fantastic way to travel through the universe, and…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (439+ words) Along with that record, the team said the star’s tight orbit also moves it through a region of space where the black hole’s extreme gravitational pull “drags spacetime itself.” Genzel noted that “S301 probes spacetime in the Galactic Center,” a phenomenon…...