Space

NASA is preparing to send its Lucy spacecraft into space in October, having the purpose of starting a 12-year journey to asteroids as well as six trojans of Jupiter. The spacecraft will be equipped with a time capsule for future ...

As new research about Venus emerges, we learn that the planet is more intriguing than previously believed. Back in 2020, traces of the gas phosphine were discovered in Venus’s upper atmosphere. Such a finding offers enough proof of explosive volcanoes ...

Whether we like it or not, Doomsday will surely come sooner or later. Both science and the Bible admit it, and the only questions are “when?” and “how?”. Among the most plausible scenarios, we find the hypotheses of a nuclear ...

Weather on other planets has always been a controversial subject amongst scientists. Since the massive discovery of the first exoplanet back in 1992, over 4,000 planets have been found orbiting different stars, resembling Earth a bit but showing strange behavior. ...

The planet Jupiter has always been a conundrum for astronomers, and even today, there are more things to learn about it. Except from being the biggest and fastest spinning planet from our Solar System, as well as a world made ...

New research unveils a new method of predicting if eruption emerges for an underwater volcano via satellite data. Only in the last few years, reports of frequent eruptions of submarine volcanoes were announced. Observing any signs of volcanic turbulence is ...

A spacecraft around the planet Mars has managed to capture the clearest view of auroras on the planet. The United Arab Emirates’ Hope probe has arrived in early February, and it has managed to catch the perfect view of the ...

NASA is gearing up for a huge event this fall featuring the James Webb Space Telescope. Recent challenge has seen the space telescope performing another key review, and it’s only a big step forward toward its planned mission. Here is ...

Rogue planets, meaning cosmic objects that aren’t bonded to any solar system, are believed to be pretty common in the Universe. But astronomers would not have believed that they can find an entire population of such planets floating in space. ...

Astronomers came recently across enough evidence that a mysterious population of “free-floating” planets may exist. As intriguing as that might sound, these planets are just some cosmic bodies, alone in deep space, without any star companion. The data is offered ...

It seems that we might be one step closer to finding out more about the real shape of the Universe. Japanese astronomers have come up with new artificial intelligence (AI) technique in order to remove noise from the astronomical data. ...

The SKA (Square Kilometer Array) Observatory, meaning a multibillion-dollar radio telescope, is moving into its construction phase. There are so many questions left unanswered about the Universe, and the upcoming mega-array is expected to uncover some precious mysteries about the ...

The Sun blasted the biggest solar flare in 4 years, displaying quite the cosmic fireworks. NASA even released an incredible video of the event captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. The solar flare came from a sunspot dubbed AR2838 and ...

Just like any other object in the universe, even the mighty and scary black holes have to obey some rules in order to exist. In 1971, the famous genius and scientist Stephen Hawking argued that the black holes’ areas should ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has detected tiny traces of methane on Mars several times in recent years. The emission could come from a geological process, but so far, scientists couldn’t really solve the mystery. What’s more intriguing is that Mars’ atmosphere ...

The world always needs more powerful tools to look deeper into the wonders of the Cosmos. Until only one hundred years ago, astronomers were sure that the Universe is infinite in space and time, and there’s no wonder why. All ...

Thinking of life on Mars might be quite the challenge. And not only for us but for scientists, too.  New data, however, show parts of Mars that have been habitable for thousands or even a million years. How is this ...

China aims to send the first humans to Mars and build a permanent base.  It’s great to see the country stepping up and committing to such daring and inspirational goals, but the competition is tough. NASA and SpaceX also plan ...

Even though astronomers are taking more and more seriously the idea to move to Mars in the next decades, humanity still has a lot more to learn about our neighbouring planet. Back in 2018, scientists discovered another incredible thing about ...

Amateur scientists have assisted astronomers in locating new gaseous planets. Two exoplanets are orbiting a star similar to our sun at 352 light-years away from our planet. Planet B and planet C, as the experts call them, orbit around star ...

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, ...

NASA’s Juno enrolled five years ago in what seemed to be one of the most daring space missions ever planned. Since then, the bold spacecraft found its perfect place, in orbit around Jupiter. Now, we have some newly processed snapshots ...

Hubble is in trouble and NASA is now desperately trying to find a solution. How did this happen? A few days ago, Hubble’s payload computer just went offline. This device, aka the “brains”, is essential to the telescope’s science operations. ...

When the popular red supergiant began acting weird, some believed that it was about to go supernova, but scientists now know what is going on! Before the ongoing pandemic became such a headline-catcher, the possibility of the nearby giant star ...