NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has just added to the growing catalog of astronomical discoveries by providing a new ...

And when scientists have studied the shape of the Milky Way in great detail, they found the disk of our spiral galaxy to also have a warp ... Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket ...

Its alignment with the rest of the galaxy moves — specifically ... This makes them great tracers for mapping the warp. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching ...

The Sombrero galaxy is located about 30 million light-years away from Earth at the edge of the Virgo galaxy cluster, and has ...

But if you could zoom out and take an edge-on photo, it actually has a distinctive warp — as if you tried ... bolsters current thinking about how the galaxy evolved and may offer clues into ...

PBS Space Time is available to stream on ... Faster than light travel is a staple of science fiction. Star Trek warp drives zip around the galaxy at hundreds of times the speed of light.

A supermassive monster lurks at the center of our galaxy, and astronomers have now ... that the news of a football-shaped spacetime warp was held off until Superbowl weekend).

"These warp-speed planets would be some of the fastest objects in the galaxy, aside from photons ... sending one hurtling through space at high speeds, while capturing the other to stay in orbit ...

One problem with the warp drive space-time is that it doesn’t naturally ... would be significant for any such event within our galaxy and even beyond. At a distance of 1 megaparsec (slightly ...

The warp in the Milky Way's spiral ... every kiloparsec (3,261 light-years) of space. Or, in more intuitive units, it is precessing backward around the galaxy by a rate of 0.12 degrees every ...

Studying this warp could reveal more about the structure of our galaxy's hidden matter ... Using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia astrometric spacecraft, which is measuring the positions ...