Milky Way disk flip simulations from Durham University's NAM 2026 presentation show the Milky Way's galactic disk flipped more than 90 degrees after a head-on collision with the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus ...

The Milky Way may not always have faced the same direction. New simulations suggest its stellar disc could have swung through ...

Earth could have lost anywhere between ten and 60 per cent of its atmosphere in the collision that is thought to have formed the Moon. New research led by Durham University, UK, shows how the extent ...

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is a fairly large one in our part of the universe. In part, its size is thanks to several minor ...

step forward in the understanding of processes of collision at such scales. It plays an essential part in estimating the energy of the impact which should be necessary, depending on its size, to ...

Estimating things that exist is generally easy, but when it comes to estimating things that do not exist, it’s more difficult. This is something physicists from Poland and the UK are well aware of. To ...

Cross-section snapshots of 3D simulations of giant impacts using 30 to 100 million particles, coloured by their material or their internal energy, related to their temperature. CREDIT Jacob Kegerreis, ...