AT2022aedm, discovered by astronomers using the ATLAS network of robotic telescopes approximately 2 billion light-years away from Earth, is unlike any other explosions that we routinely observe.
- September 9, 2023
Neil O'Brien
India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission carved its name in lunar exploration history by executing a flawless soft landing on the moon’s surface on 23 August, solidifying its place as the fourth nation to accomplish this remarkable achievement, compared by many with the event of India’s Independence occurred in 1947.
- August 25, 2023
The discovery of the physical properties of dark matter and energy in the form of particles could be the first step toward unraveling the mystery of the next dimension.
- November 15, 2022
While NASA has forbidden reproductive experiments in space with humans, what’s interesting here is to see how animal rights activists will react to the Chinese mission of sending monkeys into space to experiment with the innocent animals’ mating in zero gravity.
- November 9, 2022
NASA’s Artemis program is getting another checkpoint, as the Artemis 1 moon rocket will return to the launch pad early Friday morning (Nov. 4). You can watch the slow-motion action live. The Artemis 1 stack, a massive Space Launch System (SLS) rocket atop an Orion spacecraft, is set to leave...
- November 3, 2022
The gun that shoots the tiny, space-like bullets towards the shield material comprises two phases, the first of which launches a projectile using regular gunpowder.
- October 17, 2022
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.
- September 29, 2022
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.
- September 14, 2022
A permanent resource for any human research of the planet as well as a vital step in setting up the planet’s potential for life is the detection of underlying water.
- June 30, 2022
Astronomers have observed a star, a white dwarf, that survived a supernovae explosion and emerged being still brighter than before. Located 108 million light years from Earth, this white dwarf is in a spiral galaxy called NGC 1309, about three quarters the size of our Milky Way. A light year...
- June 29, 2022
The search for life, which may be existing or already extinct, on planetary bodies is one of the main goals of planetary exploration missions conducted by NASA and other international space agencies.
- June 25, 2022
While being particularly active this spring, the Sun has been sending out many M-class and X-class (the strongest class) flares as activity grows in the regular 11-year cycle of sunspots.
- June 24, 2022
All of the planets in the solar system can very rarely be seen clearly in one night. Planet parades are another name for these occasions.
- June 24, 2022
Curiosity’s scientific instruments discovered chemical and mineral traces of previous habitable conditions on Mars early in the mission.
- June 23, 2022