Scientists discover tiny quartz crystals on a distant gas giant!
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, or simply Webb, has made an astonishing discovery! On a massive, faraway planet named WASP-17 b, scientists have found...
A Russian satellite has shifted within 60 km of another spacecraft
When it comes to saber-rattling, few countries employ it as much as Russia does.
During their ongoing invasion and occupation of Ukraine, the country’s leadership...
Do red dwarfs or sunlike stars have more earth-sized worlds
Earth is our only example of a habitable planet, so it makes sense to search for Earth-size worlds when we’re hunting for potentially-habitable exoplanets.
When...
A solar radio eclipse ring of fire
On October 14, as most Californians were treated to a partial solar eclipse (see bottom right "visible" image showing the sun's crescent peeking out...
There are 14,000 potentially hazardous city-killing asteroids left to find
Everyone likes a cool infographic, right?
Does that statement hold even if the infographic points out a gap in our knowledge that could kill millions...
Scientists discover a super-hot exoplanet that has quartz clouds
A recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters used data obtained by the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) to identify...
Protostars can siphon material from far away, says study
When stars are born, they do it inside a molecular cloud.
Astronomers long assumed that the "crèche" supplied all the nutrients that protostars needed to...
NASA’s Psyche asteroid mission a 3.6 billion kilometre ‘journey to the centre of the...
Psyche was the Greek goddess of the soul, born a mere mortal and later married to Eros, the God of love.
Who knows why the...
Can we find the heaviest elements in asteroids?
One of the reasons that asteroid mining is such a popular idea among industrialists is that they holds large quantities of heavy elements.
NASA’s Psyche...
How Gaia found new stars and mapped asteroids in space
In an exciting journey of exploring our cosmic backyard and beyond, the European Space Agency's Gaia mission has given us a vibrant palette of...