While two of the Milky Way’s largest satellite galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, have spent billions of years orbiting one another as they are pulled in toward our home galaxy, a study, just published in Nature, has puzzled astronomers as to why these dwarf galaxies remain intact, with ongoing vigorous star formation.
Why on earth is it necessary that the extraterrestrial beings should have senses like the earthians? Since the Earth’s discovery, many people have believed that there are other life forms in outer space. In order to survive, any creature needs a sense of hearing, sight or smell, or touch, at...
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), which is the agency’s first attempt to move an asteroid in space, successfully impacted its asteroid target on Monday.
For the first time in the whole human history, humans are intentionally going to crash a spacecraft with, Dimorphos, a small asteroid, roaming on its path nearly 7 million miles away from earth.
Deepening the mystery of the sources of these deep space phenomena, astronomers say they have detected a mysterious fast radio burst (FRB) signal from a binary system.
The world’s first planetary defense test mission, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), has captured a brilliant spectacle of Jupiter and its four largest moons.
Neptune does not appear blue to Webb because its Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) only sees objects in the near-infrared spectrum between 0.6 and 5 microns.
NASA’s InSight lander has heard its first seismic waves from four meteoroid impacts, which took place on Mars in 2020 and 2021.
Jupiter, the largest planet of the solar system, is reaching opposition on Monday, Sept. 26, making closest approach to Earth for the first time in 70 years.
While even Neptune in our own solar system is a blurry blue ball when viewed from Earth’s orbit, finding habitable exoplanets outside our solar system is certainly much more difficult by directly capturing them, even with space telescopes, because of the overwhelming glare of their parent stars.
While it is often difficult to determine the timeline of the star-death, astronomers have now found enough clues to do the same by studying the remnants of a supernova in a neighboring galaxy using NASA telescopes . The supernova remnant is known as SNR 0519-69.0 (abbreviated SNR 0519) and is...
Sun’s magnificent latest close-up, which the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, a new instrument based on Earth has initially delivered, has opened a new window to study the fireball in detail.
A new simulation run on the world’s most powerful astronomy supercomputer has produced a testable scenario to explain the appearance of the Milky Way’s bar. The comparison of this scenario to data from current and future space telescopes will assist in the understanding of the evolution of our home galaxy....
Astronomers are especially interested in the Tarantula Nebula because of its chemical components and behavior, which resemble those of parts of the early universe when star formation was at its peak.
Because the Orion Nebula is the closest massive star formation region to us and may be similar to the environment in which our solar system was born, studying its PDR – the area that’s heated by starlight – is an ideal place to find clues as to how stars and planets are created.