Good news from Mars! NASA just received the first report from the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, so we know what’s really happening up there. According to the report, everything is operating as expected, meaning both the helicopter and its base station ...
NASA’s Perseverance has finally landed on the Red Planet! The news came yesterday as the rover streaked gloriously through the orange Martian atmosphere and touched the planet’s ground. That was just the first step and the riskiest one yet in ...
Planet 9 has stirred quite the buzz back in 2016. Astronomers discovered it just at the far edges of our solar system, beyond Neptune. Recently, researchers have found no proof of trans-Neptunian cosmic feature clustering as part of an attempt ...
The Moon’s craters could be more important than we previously believed, especially when the biggest crater out there has so many secrets. According to a recent study, the crater covering around a quarter of our old planetary friend’s surface can ...
NASA’s InSight probe is getting ready for some changes. Winter is coming to Elysium Planitia, and the bold probe needs to be kept safe. InSight deals with one of the toughest challenges so far: dust. The increasing dustiness of the ...
As the Universe unfolds itself in front of space telescopes’ eyes, we know that we’ll never understand it nor explore it thoroughly. It’s an enormous place, home of many cosmic features, galaxies, planets, and other worlds yet to be discovered. ...
A new super-Earth has been spotted recently, neighbouring the Alpha Centauri. A team of researchers developed a new intriguing technique and realized this discovery. Finding a super-Earth has proved so far to be one of the most challenging quests. Astronomers ...
A compact cluster of stars holds a surprise at its core, leaving astronomers in awe. Apparently, a bunch of stars and black holes can get well without a problem. The clump of stars in question, dubbed NGC 6397, is filled ...
The United Arab Emirates now makes history with its first – and successful – interplanetary mission! The UAE’s probe, dubbed Hope, in Arabic “Al-Amal,” entered Mars’ orbit on Monday (February 8). The spacecraft is developed to unveil the secrets of ...
On February 18, NASA’s Perseverance rover will arrive on Mars, beginning a new era of exploring the red planet. It will land on the Jezero Crater, located north of the planet’s equator, and it will be a very challenging landing. ...