Andy Tomaswick

We Know When a Black Hole Will Have its Next Feast

Black holes are notoriously destructive to stars near them. Astronomers often see flashes representing the death throes of stars collapsing…

5 months ago

Galaxies in Dense Environments Get Larger

Galaxies are some of the largest clearly defined structures in space. There are trillions of them, and many are clustered…

5 months ago

Specialized Materials Could Passively Control the Internal Temperature of Space Habitats

Areas of space have wildly different temperatures depending on whether they are directly in sunlight or not. For example, temperatures…

5 months ago

Webb Relieves the Hubble Tension

Sometimes, when scientists measure things differently, they get different results. Whenever that happens with something as crucial to humanity's long-term…

5 months ago

Project Helianthus – a Solar Sail Driven Geomagnetic Storm Tracker

Solar storms captured the imagination of much of the American public earlier this year when auroras were visible well south…

5 months ago

Researchers Developed a Test Bed For Separating Valuable Material on the Moon

Many times, it's better to flesh out technologies fully on Earth's surface before they're used in space. That is doubly…

5 months ago

A Hopper Could Explore Over 150km of Triton’s Surface In Two Years

Neptune's largest moon, Triton, is one of the most biologically interesting places in the solar system. Despite being hard to…

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Are Andromeda and the Milky Way Doomed to Collide? Maybe Not

Scientists discovered the Andromeda galaxy, known as M31, hundreds of years ago, and around a century ago, we realized that…

5 months ago

Astronomers Use Artificial Intelligence To Find Elusive Stars “Gobbling Up” Planets

We recently reported on how the mountains of data produced by astronomical instruments are "perfect for AI." We've also started…

5 months ago

A Tower On The Moon Could Provide Astronauts With Light, Power, and Guidance

Technologies for enabling NASA's Artemis mission are coming thick and fast, as plenty of problems must be solved before a…

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