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Microgravity disrupts sperm navigation and fertilization, raising new questions about reproduction in space.
Sperm can still swim in space, but they lose direction. That shift may reshape how reproduction works beyond Earth.
Mac Oliveauupda
Modern physics suggests distance may emerge from motion, gravity and quantum entanglement, not exist as a basic fact.
SpaceDistance in space is an illusionJoseph Shavit
Scientists directly measured dark points in light waves and found some moved faster than light without breaking relativity.
SpaceDarkness can move faster than light without breaking relativityJoseph Shavit
Illustration of the formation of the GCR cavity in the ecliptic plane. The white lines from the Sun show the typical pattern of magnetic field lines in interplanetary space, referred to as the Parker spiral IMF.
SpaceRadiation ‘cavity’ near the moon could lower astronaut exposure to cosmic radiationJoshua Shavit
XRISM observations suggest Gamma Cassiopeiae’s strange X-rays come from an accreting white dwarf companion.
SpaceGamma Cassiopeiae may be hiding a magnetic white dwarf companionJoseph Shavit
VLT images of two planets forming around the young star WISPIT 2.
SpaceIn a dusty young solar system, two giant planets are taking shapeJoseph Shavit
A new study reveals that stretched, not tilted, disks may explain strange brightness patterns in binary star systems.
SpaceAstronomers solve decades-old mystery of flickering binary starsJoshua Shavit
An artist's impression shows the giant spiral galaxy NGC 1365 as it collides and merges with a smaller companion galaxy, stirring up star formation and redistributing gas and heavy elements.
Space‘Space archaeologists’ use oxygen map to reconstruct a galaxy’s 12-billion-year pastJoshua Shavit
The Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog 4.0, pictured, is a record of cosmic mergers detected between 2015 and 2024 by the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA gravitational wave observatories. Each panel is a time and frequency signature of an individual event — the merger of two black holes, two neutron stars, or one of each, somewhere out in the cosmos.
SpaceExpanding catalog of black hole collisions is rewriting the history of the universeJoseph Shavit
The ultra-low-density planet Kepler-51d is surrounded by the thickest layer of haze found on a planet yet, according to a new study that used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to take a deeper look at the “super-puff” planet.
SpaceThe haziest planet we’ve ever seen won’t give up its secretsJoshua Shavit
New calculations suggest collapsing gas clouds can build galactic magnetic fields far faster than standard theory predicts.
SpaceScientists are rethinking how young galaxies formed their magnetic fieldsJoseph Shavit
Study suggests moons orbiting rogue planets could host liquid oceans for billions of years using tidal heating and hydrogen atmospheres.
SpaceRotation rate helps astronomers differentiate giant planets from brown dwarf starsJoseph Shavit
From left, SLAC research technical manager Concetta "Tina" Cartaro, staff scientist Paul Brink, senior staff scientist Richard Partridge and Santa Clara University physics professor Betty Young with the fourth, and final, SuperCDMS tower, in the SLAC Building 033 clean room.
Space6,800 feet below ground, in the search for dark matter, something has gone very, very coldShy Cohen
The asteroid Ryugu, as seen by Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft on June 26, 2018.
SpaceEvery building block of DNA and RNA has been found on an asteroidJoseph Shavit
An artist’s impression of L 98-59 d.
SpaceNew class of planet with a permanent magma ocean found 35 light-years awayJoshua Shavit
Lead author Andy Tzanidakis’ rendering of the planetary collision he suspects occurred around star Gaia20ehk in 2021.
SpaceAstronomers find evidence of two planets colliding 11,000 light-years awayJoseph Shavit
A realistic depiction of a free-floating gas giant planet and its Earth-like moon.
SpaceHydrogen atmospheres could keep exomoons habitable for billions of yearsJoseph Shavit