NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has measured the size of the nearest Earth-sized exoplanet known as LTT 1445Ac, which orbits a star within the constellation Eridanus. Initially found by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in 2022, LTT 1445Ac’s exact size remained uncertain due to the limitations of TESS’s optics. Emily...
NASA’s ten billion dollar James Webb Space Telescope is likely to illuminate the secrets at the center of the Milky Way, providing answers to longstanding astronomical mysteries. Over 100 astronomers from around the world have recently called for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to conduct a comprehensive survey of...
A set of seismic data collected by NASA’s InSight lander has provided us a unique glimpse into the interior structure of Mars. What researchers from ETH Zurich have found challenges existing models of the red planet’s inner system, not only by shrinking Mars’s liquid iron core but also by showcasing...
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient (LFBOT), an unprecedented burst of light in the vast emptiness between galaxies over 3 billion light-years away. LFBOTs are enigmatic events, emitting intense blue light and vanishing within days, unlike the gradual fading of supernovae which take weeks...
NASA’s Perseverance rover, on its mission to explore the Martian landscape, captured a dust devil swirling on the western rim of Mars’ Jezero Crater on August 30. While some might have entertained thoughts of alien spacecraft, the reality is far more down-to-earth. These dust devils are a common occurrence in...
Astronomers on Thursday revealed a secret about the cosmic web. For the very first time, they successfully captured the elusive glow of this colossal structure, often regarded as the universe’s largest interconnected network. This cosmic web consists of intricate filaments that serve as cosmic highways, connecting galaxies spanning the vast...
The first-ever original sample collected from any asteroid by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has completed its extraordinary journey. 70% of the sample will be preserved for future scientists not yet born, according to OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission press kit. It touched down in the Utah desert on Sunday (Sept. 24)...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer) mission successfully delivered a capsule containing rocks and dust collected from the asteroid Bennu to Earth on Sunday, landing in a targeted area of the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range near Salt Lake City at 8:52 a.m. MDT (10:52 a.m. EDT).
Launched on September 8, 2016, the spacecraft is on its way to deliver its samples to Earth, with the anticipated arrival date set for September 24.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected the source of carbon dioxide on the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa, located 390.4 million miles away from Earth. The presence of essential elements like carbon on the moon’s surface was uncertain until now. Astronomers used data from the Webb Space Telescope to...
NASA’s latest lunar images, featured in National Geographic Magazine’s special space issue and created from data captured by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) and the ShadowCam instrument on Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), illuminates the lunar south pole’s unprecedented beauty.
A massive solar eruption occurred on September 16 and surged forth from the sun’s fiery surface, propelling a scorching coronal mass ejection (CME) in the direction of our home planet.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the most advanced space-observing machine to date, has once again provided us with a stunning image of a young star, known as Herbig-Haro 211 (HH 211), emitting supersonic jets of matter.
K2-18 b, which orbits a cool dwarf star called K2-18, has long been a subject of scientific curiosity due to its location within the habitable zone of its host star. The habitable zone, also known as the Goldilocks zone, is a region where conditions may be just right for liquid water to exist on the planet’s surface – a key ingredient for the development of life as we know it.
