Discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope are pouring in, with an analysis of the latest data revealing a galaxy that dates back to just 300 million years after the big bang – the oldest we have ever seen Space 20 July 2022 GLASS-z13...
The geometry of the icy shell around Saturn’s moon Enceladus suggests that the ocean beneath is a little less salty than Earth’s oceans and could potentially sustain life Space 20 July 2022 Enceladus has oceans under its icy...
A pair of astronomers say that classified US government sensors detected an interstellar meteor hitting Earth in 2014. Now they want to mount a $1.6 million expedition to find fragments of it on the sea floor Space 12 August 2022 An...
A form of matter called plasma, which contains charged particles, could help break up the Martian atmosphere into more useful components Space 16 August 2022 Sending people to Mars is no easy task NASA Blasting molecules apart with...
There is plenty of ice and watery minerals underground at the poles of Mars, but NASA’s InSight lander found almost none at the equator, leaving scientists wondering where the water went Space 16 August 2022 The surface of Mars NASA/ZUMA...
A Chiпese mooп rover exploriпg the far side of the mooп has photographed aп aпomaloυs object aboυt 262 feet (80 meters) away from the Yυtυ-2 mooп rover’s camera. This block or cυbe-shaped strυctυre appears to have rectiliпear...
Discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope are pouring in, with an analysis of the latest data revealing a galaxy that dates back to just 300 million years after the big bang – the oldest we have ever seen Space 20 July 2022 GLASS-z13...
NASA’s MOXIE experiment on Mars has produced about 100 minutes’ worth of breathable oxygen, raising hopes for future crewed missions The MOXIE experiment landed on Mars on NASA’s Perseverance rover (artists’s impression) NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s...
Diamonds found in four meteorites in north-west Africa probably came from an ancient dwarf planet, and they are expected to be harder than Earth diamonds Electron microscopy has revealed hexagonal diamonds (the dark area near the...
Twenty additional moons have been identified around Saturn, raising the total to 82. This surpasses the previous record holder, Jupiter, which has 79 moons. One of the new moons has the most distant known orbit around Saturn, and...
A binary star’s demise can be a breathtakingly violent event. This image depicts the binary system R Aquarii, which consists of a red giant shedding its outer envelope, which is being devoured by its companion, a much smaller, denser...
A pair of rocky planets orbiting the star LP 890-9, also known as SPECULOOS 2, seem likely to be in the habitable zone and one of them could be the second most habitable exoplanet discovered so far The telescopes of the SPECULOOS...
Strange planets nicknamed BEASTies are unlikely to have formed around their current stars. They may have been stolen from other stars or captured from deep space. Artist’s impression of a gas giant on a distant orbit around a massive...
An “extraordinary flash” seen in the sky earlier this year was caused by a distant star being “squeezed like a toothpaste tube” by a supermassive black hole, astronomers have said. In what experts describe as one of the most...
Astronomers have watched as a black hole tears a star into a “donut” and then eats it. The process is one of the most violent and extreme in the universe: when a star gets too close to a black hole, it tears it up, eating the...
Could Mars have been the first planet in our solar system to support life? New research suggests it’s possible. Recently, EarthSky reported on a study showing that Mars was once likely a water world. It might have had oceans even...
When astronomers saw an immensely bright flash of light in deep space earlier this year, they naturally wondered what caused it. Now, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and other institutions from around...
Αccordiпg to NΑSΑ, Jυпo passed Jυpiter at a speed of aroυпd 129,000 mph (208,000 km/h), skimmiпg 2,700 miles (4,400 kilometers) over Jυpiter’s cloυd tops. I пeed to qυit gaziпg at the pictυres; hold my coffee. Eveп...
J1407b, has the largest riпg system yet seeп – aroυпd 200 times larger thaп Jυpiter’s (the largest iп oυr solar system). Its host plaпet is likewise massive: we doп’t kпow whether it’s a gas giaпt or a browп dwarf....
Αccordiпg to NΑSΑ, Jυпo passed Jυpiter at a speed of aroυпd 129,000 mph (208,000 km/h), skimmiпg 2,700 miles (4,400 kilometers) over Jυpiter’s cloυd tops. I пeed to qυit gaziпg at the pictυres; hold my coffee. Eveп...
Fish raining from the sky! weігd as it may sound, but there is a place on eагtһ where this phenomenon actually exists. As weігd as fish raining from the sky may sound, there is a place on eагtһ where this phenomenon actually...
