Chinese scientists have found a brand-new mineral called Changesite-(Y) in lunar samples returned by China’s Chang’e-5 lunar spacecraft in December 2020. The mineral resembles a diamond a lot due to its crystal clear appearance. China is, at present, the third ...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a spooky giant space tarantula, where the biggest and hottest stars live. The Tarantula Nebula, aka 30 Doradus, is actually known as the ‘brightest star-forming place in the galaxies nearest our galaxy,’ according ...
Our galaxy is quite ravishing as it unfolds right before our eyes. Astronomers are thrilled anytime they find something peculiar about it because they’re closer to solve some long-standing mysteries. A recent discovery unveils that Milky Way has an odd ...
Black holes are scary enough not to look further into the depths of the Universe. These savages beasts rest at the galaxies’ centers, weighing millions of times the mass of the Sun. They’re also the most mysterious objects that continue ...
An intriguing recent discovery shows us we’re pretty stealing the spotlight in the Universe. If you think Earth couldn’t do that, well, you’re about to change your mind. A team of bold scientists from the American Museum of Natural History ...
We may not know what dark matter really is, but a galaxy lacking this shadowy, invisible substance is quite odd. Recent Hubble data show that a galaxy as vast as the Milky Way has no spiral arms, no bright center, ...
The Universe’s chaos sometimes unfolds right in front of our eyes, unveiling some of the most incredible cosmic features ever seen. And astronomers don’t miss any chance to capture them. Recent discovery is no exception at all, and now we ...
The Universe witnesses some of the most impossible and curious space events, such as stars passing away, galaxy formation, or supermassive black hole creating chaos. A recent discovery takes us 13.1 billion years ago when the Universe was just a ...
Do you ever wonder how rain is on other planets from our Solar System? But how about on potentially habitable planets? According to a new study, raindrops can help us identify other planets outside our Solar System. For the new ...
Remember that interstellar visitor that confused everyone with its unknown structure and origin? Well, it’s back in the spotlight, and we have some new details about it. Oumuamua, first believed to be an alien object, might actually be just a ...
A team of researchers succeeded in shedding light on how galaxy formation is possible. Apparently, there’s an ancient light that fuels the entire process. The new paper also aims to offer tests for galaxy formation models to understand better the ...
A long-standing theory claims a supermassive black hole is capable of lots of things, including wandering through space. A black hole alone is scary enough, but imagine one in motion. How is this possible? Recently, astronomers have spotted a supermassive ...
There are still many mysteries that Milky Way challenges us to discover and solve. One of them includes some odd yet fascinating stellar streams, some river-like structures made up of stars. These cosmic features puzzle astronomers’ work, especially when it ...
Our solar system is home to one of the most intriguing cosmic features. It offers shelter to even super-Earths and mini-Neptunes, which are up to four times the size of our planet! These super-Earths, however, are not that friendly, and ...
A team of astronomers released new data of a bizarre star located approximately 15,000 light-years away from our planet. What’s more intriguing is that this type of star is also unique and displays never-seen-before activity. As the Universe sometimes unfolds ...
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 ...
The six-exoplanet system (TOI-178) recently discovered might be the biggest challenge astronomers have met. Five of the exoplanets are in an odd yet unique rhythm around their star, but that’s not all. According to new observations, astronomers believe that the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
One of the most distant galaxies, dubbed GN-z11, is now in the spotlight. According to an international team of astronomers, the astrophysical object will improve our understanding of the birth of stars and galaxies in the early Universe. Here is ...