What’s the difference between a comet and meteor?
Meteors and comets are both celestial objects that capture the imagination with their spectacular...
Why is our galaxy called the milky way?
Have you ever wondered why our galaxy is called the Milky Way? What’s so...
Why Do Moons Orbit Planets?
Planets and their moons have a complex relationship that is governed by the laws...
What Causes Shooting Stars?
Shooting stars, also known as meteors, are a fascinating astronomical phenomenon that captivates stargazers...
What Causes Meteors to Burn Up in the Atmosphere?
Meteors, also known as shooting stars, are celestial objects that enter Earth’s atmosphere at...
US lunar lander Odysseus loses power a week after its skewed lunar landing
In a significant setback for U.S. space exploration, the spacecraft Odysseus, marking the nation’s...
Why Neptune and Uranus are different shades of blue
Uranus and Neptune, the planets that are the furthest away from our star —...
Exoplanet found around giant binary stars baffles scientists
So far, scientists have discovered hundreds of exoplanets, however, it seemed that none of...
Huge black hole discovered near our galaxy
The Leo I black hole, located in the center of a dwarf galaxy orbiting...
Galaxy with no dark matter leaves scientists perplexed
NGC 1052-DF2, a galaxy with almost no dark matter has left scientists scrambling for...
Giant planet discovered circling a star in an extremely tight orbit
A new planet, TOI-2109b, has been identified circling a star roughly 855 light-years away...
Water vapor detected on Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon
For the first time, astronomers have found evidence of the presence of water vapor...
Enceladus: there may be life on Saturn’s sixth-largest moon
There may be life on one of Saturn’s moons. A joint team of astrobiologists...
Scientists discover moon-sized white dwarf with the mass of the sun
Small, but powerful: Astronomers have discovered a white dwarf that is extraordinary in several...
No life on Venus according to new study
No life on Venus according to a recently published study. Scientists led by the...
EnVision: ESA announces new Venus mission
The European Space Agency has just announced this Thursday, June 10, 2021 that the...
Proxima Centauri produces massive solar flare
In a matter of seconds, the star became no less than 14,000 times brighter...
Twelve new Einstein crosses found by the Gaia Space Telescope
An AI has discovered twelve new Einstein crosses in the observation data of the...
Glycine detected on Venus
A team of scientists have recently reported the discovery of glycine — an essential...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe reveals Bennu’s secrets
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe continues on a mission to unravel mysteries and help tell the...
There is more gold in the universe than colliding neutron stars can make
The Big Bang produced a number of elements: all the hydrogen found in the...
The mystery of dark matter
85 percent of the universe is made up of matter that we can’t see....
Astronomers find no sign of aliens around these 10 million stars
An Australian telescope has scanned part of the sky for very low frequency extraterrestrial...
ALMA discovers a never-before-seen star system cancer: what diet during treatment?
Astronomers have identified an early three-star system literally tearing its protoplanetary disc to shreds,...
How long does a galactic year last?
At our level, the Sun takes between 225 and 250 million Earth years to...
Solar flares could destroy modern tech
Books and paper maps will be the only resources available if there is a...
More than 100 brown dwarfs discovered
Researchers have discovered, with the help of citizen scientists, about 100 cool worlds that...
TESS: NASA’s exoplanet hunter completes main mission
The TESS satellite, a worthy successor to the Kepler telescope, has just completed its...
The fastest moving star in the Milky Way
Around the supermassive black hole of the Milky Way, astronomers have discovered a new...
The first magnetic map of the Sun’s atmosphere
Recently, researchers published the very first magnetic map of the solar corona, part of...
Dwarf planet Ceres harbors underground water reservoirs
The water reservoirs are the driving force behind the emergence of the until recently...
Astronomers discover a gigantic “wall of clouds” on venus
A team of astronomers announces the discovery of a real “wall of clouds” several...
Planet-forming process is more chaotic than thought
The environment in which planets are born can be much more chaotic than previously...
Mars may have been much different than previously thought
Our red neighbor is said to have been a warm, humid paradise 3.5 billion...
Near-earth asteroid discovered by two Indian teenage girls
Two young Indian women have made an exceptional discovery as part of a project...
800 million years ago, the Earth and the Moon suffered a shower of asteroids!
Recent analysis of several lunar craters suggests that the Earth-Moon system suffered a particularly...
Hubble constant mystery remains despite recent study
How fast is the universe expanding? This is far from clear – on the...
What are gamma ray bursts?
Gamma ray bursts are bursts of gamma photons which probably occur during the collision...
Gamma ray eruption from the univers’ youth detected by astronomers
Gamma ray eruptions are among the brightest phenomena in the cosmos. Within a few...
NASA chooses Halloween day of 2021 to launch the James Webb Telescope
The James Webb space telescope was supposed to be launched next March. Unfortunately the...
Solar Orbiter takes close-up pictures of the Sun
Launched on February 10, 2020, the Solar Orbiter probe has just completed its commissioning...
How many humans are needed to colonize Mars
Colonizing the planet Mars requires leaving nothing to chance, not even the number of...
Four objects discovered in space leave astronomers perplexed
A team of astronomers announces that they have identified four circular objects in the...
Planet X not needed to explain the gravity of some kuiper belt objects according to new research
About four years ago, scientists came up with a particularly interesting theory: our solar system...
White dwarfs make more carbon than previously thought
When they breathe their last, stars scatter their ashes in the universe, giving birth...
Molecule that should be invisible spotted in the atmosphere of an exoplanet
Using the infrared instruments on board hubble space telescope, researchers from SRON (the Netherlands...
How was the moon formed? New findings casts doubt on current theory
The Moon would have formed following the collision of the Earth with a spatial...
New research suggests that some galaxies may host two supermassive black holes
At the center of our Milky Way is a black hole of gigantic proportions....
Cosmic mystery: a massive star disappears without a trace
A massive star spotted a few years ago in a distant galaxy has completely...
Early birth of a planetary system
The observation of the star HL Tauri through the network of radio telescopes ALMA...
