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
Mars has long fascinated scientists, explorers, and dreamers who envision a future where humans...
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...
Two super-Earths discovered around a close star
Two rocky super-Earths discovered in orbit around a nearby red dwarf offer us a...
Will NASA “fix a price” on the moon’s ice?
Water is the most important resource on Earth and could also be in space....
Pluto may have had a liquid ocean
The dwarf planet Pluto, and perhaps other large objects in the Kuiper belt, may...
Astronomers find a “baby magnetar”
Astronomers recently observed a new magnetar formed 240 years ago. Measuring around thirty kilometers...
NASA plans to return to Triton, Neptune’s strange moon
The moon Triton, orbiting Neptune, has fascinated and questioned scientists for decades. A mission,...
Study estimates number of Earth-like planets in the galaxy
A New research suggests that 18% of solar-type (G-type) stars may have an Earth-like...
Green night glow detected in the atmosphere of Mars
Researchers recently detected a green night glow in the atmosphere of Mars. This is...
