Why is the Moon slowly moving away from Earth every year and what does it reveal about our planet’s future |
For billions of years, the Moon has been Earth’s steadfast companion, influencing tides, stabilising our planet’s tilt, and…
A meteor shower is visible in the sky in November, and the show can be spectacular
Every year, the night sky offers many surprises. And currently, a meteor shower can be seen at night,…
This black hole released energy equivalent to 10,000 billion suns
Black holes are certainly one of the most powerful structures in the universe. And if you still had…
The Northern Lights may shine above Canada in the nights ahead
A volatile region of the Sun, crackling with flares and blasting solar storms into space, is setting us…
Winner of Weather Photographer of the Year Contest Shows There’s No End to a Rainbow (LOOK)
– credit, Shuchang Dong and Geshuang Chen, entitled “The Glorious Ring.” The Royal Meteorological Society has announced the…
Major breakthrough: Water found on 7-billion-year-old interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS reshapes planet formation theories
NASA scientists have made a significant breakthrough. They confirmed the detection of water’s chemical signature on the interstellar…
Scientists create 1st-ever 3-dimensional map of world outside Earth’s solar system
A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiter planets is now the first planet outside Earth’s solar…
After 20 years of research, astronomers discover a planet that looks strangely like Earth
For years, many astronomers have been searching for exoplanets in the universe. And although some of them are…
ESA’s Swarm spots a fast-growing anomaly in the Earth’s magnetic field
A representation of the South Atlantic Anomaly in 2025 (Image source: Finlay, C.C. et al., 2025; cropped) Using…
How a young Jupiter saved Earth from falling into the Sun
Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals,…
A ‘gravity anomaly’ from 2007 may have impacted Earth in one unusual way
A ‘gravity anomaly’ may sound dramatic, but as defined by EBSCO, they pertain to “deviations in the expected…
Discovery of “heavy” water in a protoplanetary disk: a clue to the origins of water on Earth
A group of astronomers has detected “heavy” water in a protoplanetary disk for the first time: a rare…