Astronomy

Astronomers studying high-speed matter jets emitted by giant young stars that are still forming discover a significant difference between those jets and those emitted by…

70 Ophiuchi system is a conjectured planetary system orbiting both stars of the binary system. It is a binary star system located 16.6 light-years away…

Mankind’s fastest spaceship will take thousands of years to reach even the nearest stars. Breakthrough Initiatives are exploring the possibility of reducing it in a…

NASA’s Juno probe has just provided the closest images of Jupiter’s ice moon Ganymede that we’ve seen for decades, presenting some incredible glimpses of its…

China’s Zhurong rover returned the first batch of scientific images since its historic landing on May 15, when China became the second country to successfully…

R Leporis is a long-period variable in the constellation Lepus, easily seen in binoculars when at maximum brightness. It is also known as R Lepus…

The interstellar medium (ISM) is an ever-changing, dynamic environment. It serves as the cauldron in which stars are formed. It acts as a conduit for…

Astronomers only recently discovered the mysterious signals known as fast radio bursts (FRBs). The bursts are brief and powerful, lasting only.001 of a second on…

On Thursday, June 2021, people across Canada, Greenland, the Arctic and Russia will considered an extra special eclipse of the sun. Do not worry if…

Mira (designation Omicron Ceti) is a red giant star estimated to be 200–400 light-years from the Sun in the constellation Cetus. It lays 420 light-years…

When the first child is born outside the earth, it will be a milestone like the first step of humanity outside Africa. This national birth…

Using Namibia’s High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS), astronomers have recorded the most powerful and longest gamma-ray afterglow from one of the brightest explosions in the universe,…