16+ hour, 5+ min ago  (521+ words) Thanks to the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission, or XRISM, University of Michigan researchers are helping chip away at one of astronomy's cosmic mysteries: The universe's most massive galaxies appear to be missing stars. Compared with theoretical expectations, these galaxies…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago  (715+ words) Space X sold 555, 555, 555 shares at $135 each. That priced the company near $1. 77 trillion at the open, topping Saudi Aramco's 2019 listing as the largest debut ever. Shares trade under the ticker SPCX. Demand ran far ahead of supply. Orders reached roughly $250 billion,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (401+ words) For many inventors, a major breakthrough becomes the defining milestone of their careers. For Mohsen Bahmani, however, it was only the starting point of a much larger vision. Bahmani's work reflects many of the trends shaping the future of transportation....

2+ week, 12+ hour ago  (860+ words) Technology Org Elon Musk has crossed a line no human has touched before. The Space X initial public offering has lifted his fortune past $1 trillion, making the 54-year-old entrepreneur the first trillionaire in recorded history. The rocket, satellite, and AI…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (539+ words) Ukrainian drone engineers took a while to reach a sufficient speed to catch up with the Geran-2. At first, interceptor drones were only targeting slower Russian UAVs (mostly, reconnaissance drones). The Geran-2 can fly at 185 km/h, even though it…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (629+ words) Little Red Dot Abell2744-QSO1. Image credit: NIRCam Now, researchers using Webb have detected clear evidence that some supermassive black holes were enormous from the beginning, forming without a stellar collapse phase, and without a significantly more massive host galaxy to feed…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (590+ words) But, until now, no one could find it. The study was published in'The Astrophysical Journal Letters. "Unless a black hole exists in a perfect vacuum, it must blow a wind somehow," said Northwestern's'Mark Gorski, who co-led the study. "And there…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (546+ words) The Copernicus Project started at the University of Texas at Austin in August 2001. In June 2002, a grant from the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) was used to develop the first prototype which was completed in August 2004. In the interim, support…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (245+ words) The focus of this NASA/ESA'Hubble'Space Telescope'image'is an active'spiral galaxy'on a journey lasting hundreds of millions of years. The galaxy Messier 88 (M88), also known as NGC 4501, is located about 63 million light-years away in the constellation'Coma Berenices'(Berenice's Hair).' This NASA/ESA…...

3+ week, 13+ hour ago  (236+ words) An artist's impression of a disk of gas and dust formed during the birth of the sun. Credit: NASA/FUSE/Lynette Cook "We recreated the crystallization of iron meteorites in the lab and used the known chemical composition of iron…...