Watch a giant exoplanet’s 17-year journey around its star in a 10-second video
Ever wondered what it would be like to watch a planet go around its star?
A scientist has made a video that lets you do...
This sure looks like the movements of a glacier across ancient Mars
It is a scientific certainty that Mars was once a much different place, with a denser atmosphere, warmer temperatures, and where water once flowed.
Evidence...
This Jupiter-sized exoplanet is unusual for several reasons
In a recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, team of international researchers examined exoplanet TOI-4860 b, which is...
Neptune’s vanishing clouds linked to solar cycle, study finds
For the first time in nearly 30 years of observations, Neptune's cloud cover has dramatically decreased, and researchers think the sun's solar cycle might...
How extraterrestrial tales of aliens gain traction
One night, upon returning to the cave that his tribe calls home, the monkey-humanoid Moon-Watcher finds a strange crystal object, a kind of monolith...
NASA’s Psyche mission to a metal world may reveal the mysteries of Earth’s interior
French novelist Jules Verne delighted 19th-century readers with the tantalizing notion that a journey to the center of the Earth was actually plausible.
Since then,...
Mysterious star may solve puzzle of universe’s strongest magnets
Magnetars are some of the universe's most powerful magnets.
These super-tight, dead stars have extremely strong magnetic fields and can be found throughout our galaxy.
Yet,...
Neptune’s clouds vanish, and the sun might be why
Imagine looking up and not seeing a single cloud in the sky.
Now, imagine that happening on Neptune, a planet known for its clouds!
For the...
Scientists use FAST to discover a new population of dwarf pulses
Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), a research team led by Prof. Han Jinlin from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese...
What is most likely going on in Area 51?
One of the reasons people can never be entirely sure about what is going on at Area 51 is that it is a highly...