New research shows how a mineral that repeatedly shows up on Mars is here on Earth. How could this be possible? Apparently, the Antarctic Ice is not just ice. Very deep-buried, there’s more yet to be explored. Researchers found a ...
Venus has created quite the buzz recently, due to one chemical element that keeps puzzling scientists’ work. Phosphine was detected on Venus back in 2017, but it wasn’t announced until last year. Many papers are trying to debunk or support ...
Recent exoplanet-hunting mission puts in the spotlight a quite odd cosmic body. Without clouds, but with a clear atmosphere, an exoplanet unveiled itself in front of the space telescopes’ eyes, like nothing seen before. As intriguing and strange as it ...
NASA’s successful OSIRIS-REx will soon return home. The spacecraft will begin a two-year trip back to Earth on May 10. During last year sample collection event, OSIRIS-REx gathered enough material from asteroid Bennu’s surface. The mission was a real success ...
There are a few black hole categories, such as stellar-mass black holes, intermediate, and the most challenging, the supermassive black holes (SMBH). SMBH can reach the order of millions to billions of solar masses. So far, astronomers captured one at ...
If supermassive black holes don’t confuse you enough, well, SLABS are going to leave you in awe. New research indicates the possible existence of SLABS, also known as stupendously large black holes. These are even more significant than the supermassive ...
The Fornax A galaxy is probably one of the most intriguing yet odd galaxies in the Universe. The astronomers have recently done a spectroscopic and imaging study of the galaxy using the AstroSat spacecraft. The new data now offers more ...
NASA released a series of intriguing images of two unique planetary nebulae captured by the incredible Hubble Space Telescope. New insights about how the cosmic bodies can make their dramatic features are available, too! The Butterfly Nebula, also known as ...
WASP-107b is the first fluffy exoplanet ever spotted by astronomers in our galaxy. The exoplanet flaunts quite the traits, and it orbits an orange dwarf star almost 211 light-years away. New research, however, aims to change our perspective about WASP-107b. ...
Traveling to the Red Planet might take us a while, but growing a green crop is almost impossible. Or not? Astronauts spending time on Mars will have to rely a lot on ISRU (in-situ resource utilization), including food because sending ...
NASA performed a check-up on its massive Space Lunar System (SLS) lunar rocket recently and released a status update. The check-up included a test firing of the engines that didn’t go as initially planned. However, NASA engineers explained that they ...
Astronomers detected an intriguing gas giant planet that orbits a star in a triple star system. As confusing as it might be, such a thing is not that weird at all. The system, dubbed KOI-5, is part of the Cygnus ...
Back in 2019, the first bright trails of the Starlink satellites flourished across the night. Such an intriguing event, however, made scientists worry. They believed that the satellites would overshadow the stars. Now, Starlink is almost invisible to the naked ...
An intriguing, rocky, and hot super-Earth amazes scientists with its features. The planet has almost three times the mass of Earth, but their densities are the same. Other measurements indicate the super-Earth is 50 % bigger than our planet and ...
A team of scientists from the LLNL (the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) decided to reconstruct the original Solar System. As the Solar System was born, one of the most massive planets (Saturn and Jupiter) developed really quickly. And as they ...
NASA aims to launch one of the most powerful rockets ever made on January 17. Even if the SLS (the Space Launch System) rocket launch was previously delayed, it’s still the most-awaited project NASA intends to use for non-commercial crewed ...
An incredible close-up of Mars’ massive canyon is now available thanks to NASA’s HiRISE. The University of Arizona has released the images, offering more details. HiRISE shot the canyon in an attempt to determine the origins of it. Here is ...
Discovering a genuinely unique magnetar was the highlight of 2020! Astronomers introduced the new “member” to an exclusive family of exotic cosmic bodies. NASA’s Chandra X-ray offered essential data and supported the idea that the magnetar is also a pulsar. ...
NASA will reach another space milestone thanks to its rover, Perseverance. Not more than 80 million km left to go in its 471 million km mission, the rover is almost there. Perseverance is close to Mars, and in 43 days, ...
News about Mars’ latest disturbance emerged recently, and it seems quite odd. The Red Planet is shaking and wiggling as it rotates, leaving astronomers in awe. Similar to a toy top that wobbles as it loses velocity, Mars’ poles are ...
If you think you saw it all in 2020, you’re about to be amazed. Apparently, our planet was a rebel, hitting a new speed record. How so? According to new research, Earth was rotating faster in 2020. And it might ...
So far, astronomers amazed us with many fantastic discoveries, including one of the most intriguing stars and planet systems. Every system is unique and moving, but the star HD 158259 will leave in awe. The star is a bit larger ...
Last year brought notable firsts in space exploration. Now, we have six new space missions, ready to change our views. From the James Webb Space Telescope, Chandrayaan-3, bold Mars missions, to Artemis 1, space never felt so busy. Here is ...
Recent activity from Proxima Centauri left astronomers in awe. An odd signal has been detected, and now the possibilities are endless. According to researchers, the peculiar signal, some 980 MHz radio waves, have been received back in April and May ...
Neptune is again in the spotlight, thanks to an intriguing, but old discovery. Astronomers detected a few years ago a small vortex and dubbed it Dark Spot Jr, now nowhere to be found. The Sun’s eighth planet is known for ...