This is a new artist’s animation of our galaxy, the Milky Way, based on data from ESA’s Gaia space telescope. Gaia has changed our impression of the Milky Way. Even seemingly simple ideas about the nature of our galaxy’s
If only the city of Los Angeles had invested more to protect its Angelenos, the enormous destruction from the Los Angeles fires perhaps could have been considerably smaller. The LA fires have claimed twenty-nine lives, including an amputee father
President Donald Trump issued an executive order Monday declaring that it is “the policy of the United States to end the use of paper straws.” Former President Joe Biden’s administration, in an attempt to phase out federal purchases of
From decades of astronomical observations scientists know that most galaxies contain massive black holes at their centers. The gas and dust falling into these black holes liberates an enormous amount of energy as a result of friction, forming luminous
As U.S. official policy shifts against the inhibition of freedom of speech and expression, Microsoft, backed by President Donald Trump, has come under scrutiny for alleged press censorship. According to a report published by the Foundation for Freedom Online,
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a cosmic bullseye! The gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424 is rippling with nine star-filled rings after an “arrow” — a far smaller blue dwarf galaxy — shot through its heart. Astronomers using Hubble identified
STATE DEPARTMENT —U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to hold meetings Tuesday with officials in Costa Rica and later in Guatemala as part of a tour of Latin America focused on migration, security cooperation and countering Chinese
Feeling lucky? Astronomers say that a newly identified space rock, potentially as big as a football field, has a better than 1% chance of crashing into Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. Those odds may seem pretty good (assuming you’re
Dozens of drawings Michelangelo made while planning the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel will go on view at the Muscarelle Museum of Art after a monumental feat in networking and logistics by the Williamsburg, Virginia museum ahead of the
