Extraordinary images of Jupiter have been made possible by the world’s biggest and most space telescope: the James Webb Space Telescope! Back in July, JWST captured pictures of the giant planet in the solar system. Now, we get the chance ...
Getting to Mars is obviously no child’s play. But once astronomers figure out completely how to land there, they’ll have to grow some plants on the Martian soil as well. While the Red Planet doesn’t have any plants now, as ...
NASA has yet to send the rocket that will transport men to the moon and the crew to explore the lunar surface. That’s going to be part of the Artemis mission. It has already determined where the astronauts would land ...
It was around 66 million years back, when an asteroid crashed into Earth, causing a gigantic crater beneath the ocean and causing havoc on the globe. Not the asteroid that killed out the dinosaurs, but rather a crater discovered 248 ...
Last month, residents of New Zealand were astonished to see big, bright, and green meteors zooming across the skies way above their heads. Those celestial objects were big enough to be classified as fireballs. Scientists might have finally unraveled the ...
Just a few days ago, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope presented images of the mesmerizing Cartwheel Galaxy. The cosmic structure is located 500 million light-years away from us, and you may have already guessed the reason for its unique moniker. ...
If anybody is still so naive to think that NASA doesn’t need the Hubble telescope anymore as long as it has James Webb, they are so wrong! The good ol’ three-decades-old telescope is once again under the spotlight thanks to ...
With the first records from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a group of academics recently filed a study to MNRAS in which they report the discovery of a candidate galaxy named CEERS-93316 that formed roughly 250 million years after ...
All four giant planets from our Solar System (Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune) have some level of ‘rings,’ meaning debris from comets, asteroids, shattered moons, etc. If you’re at least a bit interested in astronomy, you know very well that ...
How conducive is the Moon to the survival of humans? It seems that our odds have just improved. A recent study has shown that there are regions on the moon where temperatures are consistent enough for human beings to exist. ...
Let’s admit it: despite the huge amount of knowledge that astronomers have about the Universe, sending astronauts to the nearest planet to us is still difficult. At its closest approach, Mars is still tremendously farther away from Earth than the ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) of NASA has been pretty busy lately, as it presented the first full-color images of the Universe last month. But once again, the scientists in charge of JWST are up for great achievements! According ...
It seems that Earth remains a not-so-safe place, as many of us like to believe. After the 2016 CZ31 and 2013 CU83 asteroids passed by our planet last weekend at great speed, it’s now time for another huge space rock ...
Humanity had a lot to wait for NASA to finally deploy the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) into space. There’s no wonder why, as we’re talking about the most powerful space telescope ever built. NASA launched it last Christmas after ...
The James Webb Space Telescope hopes to learn how soon after the Big Bang galaxies formed and when stars began producing the ingredients required to create planets and life. The JWST has only just begun operations, yet it is already ...
Sending the first astronauts to Mars is hard enough, as space agencies still struggle to find out exactly how to do it. But perhaps bringing rock samples from the Red Planet in order to study them up-close on Earth will ...
In recent images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers discovered an unusual occurrence taking place in a far-off galaxy. This event was not present in the same galaxy when the Hubble Space Telescope was previously used to observe it. ...
This massive neutron star was once a compact, collapsing star that shredded and ate virtually all of its stellar partner to become the highest in mass neutron star ever detected. One of several fastest-spinning neutron bright stars, its rotation rate is ...
Let’s admit it: there are a lot of conundrums about our Cosmos that astronomers struggle even today to untangle. But they might not have the correct answer when it comes to how the oldest black holes from the Universe form. ...
The Institute for Advanced Concepts at NASA is well-known for its promotion of far-fetched theories and proposals in the domains of astronomy and space exploration. The institution has been supporting a broad range of initiatives since its re-founding in 2011. ...
We often like to believe that the Universe is a pretty safe place, at least for our planet, but studying a little astronomy will change your mind fast. The asteroid belt located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter is ...
It’s not mandatory to be an astronomer to realize that it would be absurd for the Universe to have been created only for us humans. Other intelligent forms of life should be out there as well somewhere, and many believe ...
An unprecedented triple star configuration has been seen by scientists. If the odd stellar trio once had a 4th sibling until one of them swallowed it up, it might explain why they are so considerably more massive and densely pressed together ...
Thanks to the observations of the most powerful space telescope, namely James Webb, astronomers have discovered the oldest galaxy in the Universe. The system of stars is 13.5 billion years old, meaning almost the same age as the Universe itself. ...
The European Southern Observatory’s own Very Large Telescope recently identified a previously unknown form of a black hole in a nearby galaxy for the very first time. Unlike active black holes, inactive stellar-mass black holes are very difficult to detect because ...