It started as a side note in a high-resolution ALMA observation. Elena Shablovinskaia and her team weren’t hunting for the weird. They were mapping the bright, active heart of NGC 4945 — a nearby ...

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In the pursuit of space exploration, humans have broken records that were previously thought impossible. At the same time, terrible accidents have marred the history of space flight, making later ...

Slingshot Aerospace has been chosen by the Air Force's technology acceleration arm to support a program for identifying and tracking various objects in space. The company specializes in artificial ...

Space is so vast that even our largest creations barely register. When you place rockets, space stations, and asteroids next to familiar landmarks, the scale becomes shocking. Objects in orbit and ...