Two Temperate Super-Earths and “Cold Neptune” have been Discovered Orbiting Nearby Stars
A group lead by Paul Butler and Fabo Feng of Carnegie Mellon University found a collection of eight exoplanet candidates and five newly discovered exoplanets…
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13–14 December Will see the Geminid Meteor Shower
According to NASA, the Geminid Meteor Shower will be at its peak this week, with the nights of December 13 and 14 offering the best…
Discovering the First Exposed Planetary Core Allows a View Inside Other Worlds
Astronomers from the University of Warwick have found the remaining core of a gas giant circling a far-off star, providing a hitherto unattainable look into…
260 Light Years Away, a New Study Describes an Atmosphere on “Hot Neptune” that “Shouldn’t Exist”
The atmosphere of a highly uncommon type of exoplanet known as a “hot Neptune” has been depicted for the first time thanks to data analysis…
NASA’s Lunar Flashlight Takes a SpaceX Rocket to the Moon
After failing to launch on NASA’s Artemis 1 mission, the privately developed Hakuto-R lunar lander and the small briefcase-sized CubeSat known as Lunar Flashlight are…
Astronomers Anticipated a Dying star, but Instead Found Something Else After a Terrifying Flash
Our knowledge of the most violent explosions in the Universe is being fundamentally altered by a sudden burst of light from a galaxy just over…
Scientists Have Discovered Hot Gas Bubbles Spinning Around the Supermassive Black Hole in the Milky Way
Astronomers have discovered indications of a “hot spot” surrounding Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of our galaxy, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter…
Venus Used to be More Like Earth, But Climate Change has Rendered it Uninhabitable
Venus, our sister planet, has a lot to teach us about climate change. Venus currently has a surface temperature of 450°C (the temperature of an…
Venus’s Surface Temperatures are 470 Degrees Celsius, and NASA is Going Back There – Will We Find Life When We Get There?
For the purpose of researching the “lost habitable” planet of Venus, NASA has chosen two missions, dubbed DAVINCI+ and VERITAS. The development costs for each…
According to a NASA study, Massive Volcanism may have Changed the Temperature of Ancient Venus
According to a NASA research, long-lasting volcanic activity that released enormous volumes of material over the course of hundreds to thousands of millennia may have…
Gamma Cephei b – a gas giant exoplanet
Gamma Cephei b is an exoplanet in the K-type star system. It has a mass of 9.4 Jupiters, takes 2.5 years to complete one orbit…
Supermassive Black Hole’s Dazzling Jet is only Occasionally Seen
A supermassive black hole is the largest type of black hole, with a mass hundreds of thousands, millions, or billions of times that of the…
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