The haziest planet we’ve ever seen won’t give up its secrets
Something is hiding inside Kepler-51d, and it’s doing a remarkably good job of it. About 2,615 light-years away…
Emirates Mars Mission: UAE extends Hope Probe until 2028, new discoveries expected
UAE’s Hope Probe Extended to 2028: What More Will We Learn About Mars? The United Arab Emirates Space…
Astronomers spot ‘jellyfish galaxy’ torn apart 8.5 billion years ago
Long strands of glowing gas stretch behind a distant galaxy, dotted with pockets of newborn stars. The shape…
John Zarnecki: Titan, Saturn, and beyond
Chris Smith first crossed paths with John Zarnecki in Cambridge during the 1990s, when Chris was immersed in…
NASA’s James Webb Telescope maps 400-light-year-distant planet in 3D, revealing heat so extreme it breaks water apart
An artistic depiction of the WASP-18b exoplanet (Image source: NASA) NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has mapped the…
Scientists Spot Two Black Holes Caught in a Deadly Orbital Dance for the First Time
When two black holes meet, they are drawn to one another by way of their enormous gravity, initiating…
5 reasons why 3I/ATLAS differs from the first interstellar comet 2I/Borisov
3I/ATLAS: Initial observations suggest a nucleus size ranging from 0.32 to 5.6 kilometers, with a most likely diameter…
Future SpaceX Starship flights could cross Southern Arizona
Elon Musk’s Starship could one day streak through the skies above parts of Southern Arizona — and cause…
Most detailed universe simulation yet: ESA’s Euclid project maps 3.4 billion galaxies
The catalogue describes each galaxy using more than 400 properties, including brightness, shape, velocity, and star formation rate.…
The observable universe is just 5% of reality, 95% remains invisible!
Ordinary matter, also called baryonic matter, consists of protons, neutrons, and electrons. This is the material that emits…
Voyager 2’s journey into interstellar space raises more questions than answers!
Voyager 2 continues to travel at over 55,000 kilometres per hour, moving deeper into interstellar space. Its power…
Observable universe is 93 billion light years wide but what’s beyond it? Here’s what we can’t see…
One of the most important pieces of evidence for this limit is the cosmic microwave background radiation, faint…