1 ice grain from Jupiter’s moon may be enough to find signs of life,...
Scientists are buzzing with excitement over a new discovery that could make finding signs of life on distant moons a lot easier than we...
Here’s the Total Solar Eclipse, seen from space
On Monday, April 8th, people across North America witnessed a rare celestial event known as a total solar eclipse.
This phenomenon occurs when the Moon...
Astronomers discover a young Jupiter-like exoplanet
Astronomers have recently announced the discovery of a new exoplanet, closely resembling Jupiter in both size and mass, orbiting a distant star.
Named TOI-4862 b...
What happens to solar systems when stars become white dwarfs
In a couple billion years, our Sun will be unrecognizable. It will swell up and become a red giant, then shrink again and become...
The seven most intriguing worlds to search for advanced civilizations (so far)
Sometimes, the easy calculations are the most interesting.
A recent paper from Balázs Bradák of Kobe University in Japan is a case in point.
In it,...
A neutron star merged with a surprisingly light black hole
Galactic collisions, meteor impacts and even stellar mergers are not uncommon events. neutron stars colliding with black holes however are a little more rare,...
Scientists reveal cosmic drama in the heart of the Milky Way
In the bustling heart of our Milky Way galaxy, there's a place where stars live fast and die young, in a cosmic dance governed...
The world’s largest digital camera is complete. It will go into the Vera Rubin...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), was formally proposed in 2001 to create an astronomical facility that could...
Does the rise of AI explain the great silence in the universe?
Artificial Intelligence is making its presence felt in thousands of different ways.
It helps scientists make sense of vast troves of data; it helps detect...
The first atmospheric rainbow on an exoplanet
When light strikes the atmosphere all sorts of interesting things can happen.
Water vapor can split sunlight into a rainbow arc of colors, corpuscular rays...