The Sun is perpetually bubbling and bursting thanks to its activity. If the surface eruptions are big enough, they can send billions of tons of plasma and charged particles towards our planet, according to Sciencealert. To analyze those sorts of ...
China reached a huge milestone recently thanks to its ambitious Mars mission and rover Zhurong. The country is the first to make an orbiting, landing, and roving operation during its first mission to the Red Planet. Now, Zhurong offers us ...
Ever wondered how baby stars are born? What shapes them and gives them the power to survive? With the help of a bold team of astronomers, we can finally watch the birth of a star and what it takes to ...
The Milky Way collision with Gaia-Enceladus, also known as Gaia Sausage, holds the key to an ancient secret: when the oldest stars in our galaxy formed. Astronomers discovered recently that many of the stars in the Milky Way were already ...
Earth is covered in complex layers of gases that compose the atmosphere. They work as a global shield for all life on Earth. However, we are actively shrinking an entire one of those layers, known as the stratosphere, due to ...
The hunt for habitable planets continues as scientists wonder now how hospitable are actually the red dwarfs. These cosmic features are one of the long-lasting and most common stars in the Milky Way, and they could hide more secrets than ...
China is getting ready for a big space event soon, as rover Zhurong will finally land on Mars! The ambitious mission is part of a space programme that aims to raise the country’s global stature and technological might. The touchdown ...
Saturn has puzzled scientists’ work for decades due to its mysterious structure that’s so challenging to probe. Recent data, however, shed light on a subject that intrigues us all: what’s like inside Saturn? Thanks to the gas giant’s unique ring ...
NASA’s Perseverance is now examining the floor of an ancient Martian crater where once there was a lake. The new operational tasks unfold as Ingenuity, the mighty little helicopter ends its bold mission. The rover has been quite busy in ...
We just love some good, intriguing Universe simulations, right? Well, how about simulating the grand Universe 1000 times faster? A team of bold scientists from the Flatiron Institute have come up with a method to simulate the Universe 1000 times ...
New insights on how high-mass stars are formed came from a bold Dutch-led team of astronomers. Their work is astonishing, and they succeeded in finding that one of the biggest stars in the Universe are actually created differently from the ...
Searching for alien civilizations? Are you sure this isn’t the perfect scenario for an SF movie? Well, not at all. For the people enrolled in the Breakthrough Listen initiative is a non-stop job. This project has now made several attempts ...
After making history on Mars (first controlled flight on another planet), NASA’s helicopter strikes again. The Perseverance rover captured an incredible low-pitched humming of Ingenuity’s blades as it flies through the Martian atmosphere. NASA released the footage with the audio ...
Mars’ volcanic activity has been quite a mystery for many decades. It puzzled scientists’ work, and it stirred one of the most intriguing theories. Are there active volcanoes on Mars? New research might be able to answer that question thanks ...
Ever wondered what does it look like inside a planet? How about Saturn’s interior? Recent work of Johns Hopkins University offers now a sneak peek inside Saturn, and things are as great as you can imagine. The intriguing glimpse of ...
New Parker data reveals quite the activity on Venus. During a short flyby at our planetary neighbour, NASA’s solar probe detected an incredible radio signal: a natural one. The event marks the first direct measurement of Venus’ atmosphere in about ...
Perovskite got a reputation for its unique properties – it is a cheap, somewhat efficient way to harvest energy from the sun. Its crystalline layout can convert over a quarter of the light falling onto it into electricity. Technically speaking, ...
China is gearing up to send the first core module for its first permanent space station. Plans for the big launch event are now in development, and we might see it happen shortly this week. Starting with an ambitious idea, ...
Asteroids are one of the most dangerous possible attackers of Earth. For decades we’ve tried to understand and learn about them. One method that proved to be efficient is using specially designed telescopes. ESA recently unveiled the Test-Bed Telescope 2 ...
COVID-19 is a very challenging threat. Not only is it extremely dangerous, but there is little scientists can do to predict how it would affect different persons and how the situation would evolve. Scientists made significant progress since the beginning ...
The Hubble Space Telescope celebrates 31 years of work with a breathtaking photo. The Universe exhibition is something that fuels our imagination and leaves us with our jaws constantly dropped. Thanks to Hubble’s fantastic work, we came across many incredible ...
Thinking at NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter and wonder if there’s something it can’t do. Apparently, not. The bold helicopter completed its third flight on April 25 and is closer to its main goal than ever. Ingenuity made history first time on ...
Ingenuity marks another successful flight on Mars! The new milestone has been reached on Thursday (April 22) morning, and NASA revealed all the details. Just days after its first success, the Mars helicopter completed another flight, this time putting on ...
Earth has now quite the sneaky neighbour, and astronomers have all the details. A tiny black hole, approximately 1,500 light-years from Earth, in the Monoceros constellation, it’s excitingly close by. As per astronomers’ calculations, we have nothing to worry about, ...
Space has sent to our planet a rare isotope of iron for the last 33,000 years. This thing is intriguing yet curious, mainly because scientists found radioactive dust underneath the ocean waves. That indicates how Earth is travelling through a ...