Astronomy

A Significant Advance in the Search for Life is Presented by the New Class of Habitable Exoplanets

A Significant Advance in the Search for Life is Presented by the New Class of Habitable Exoplanets

Astronomers have discovered a new type of exoplanets that are substantially different from our own but may harbor life, which might hasten the search for…
Microbes may have Swarmed Ancient Mars Underground

Microbes may have Swarmed Ancient Mars Underground

According to French scientists, ancient Mars may have had an environment capable of supporting an underground world teeming with microscopic organisms. The researchers concluded that…
Giant Planets May Become “Maturity” Much Earlier Than Once Believed, Study Finds

Giant Planets May Become “Maturity” Much Earlier Than Once Believed, Study Finds

Researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), along with scientists from other institutions in Spain, Italy, Germany, Belgium, the United Kingdom, and Mexico, have…
Private SpaceX Mission Could Assist NASA in Extending Hubble for Many More Years

Private SpaceX Mission Could Assist NASA in Extending Hubble for Many More Years

Elon Musk’s SpaceX and NASA are working together to determine whether it would be possible to use SpaceX to move the Hubble observatory into a…
The Heat Shield Modeling Gaps Found in Galileo’s Jupiter Entry Probe

The Heat Shield Modeling Gaps Found in Galileo’s Jupiter Entry Probe

In 1995, the Galileo mission’s entry probe burst into the atmosphere of Jupiter in a blazing fashion. The probe transmitted information regarding the burning of…
Laughing Gas Discovered in Space could be the Beginning of Life

Laughing Gas Discovered in Space could be the Beginning of Life

Scientists at UC Riverside are suggesting something is missing from the typical roster of chemicals that astrobiologists use to search for life on planets around…
Spin Flips Depict the formation of Galaxies from the Cosmic Web

Spin Flips Depict the formation of Galaxies from the Cosmic Web

The alignment between galaxy spins and the large-scale structure of the universe reveals the processes by which different components of galaxies form. The large-scale structure…
Debris from the Asteroid impact Extend over 6,000 Kilometers

Debris from the Asteroid impact Extend over 6,000 Kilometers

A new image captured by a Chilean telescope appears to be a dazzling comet streaking across the night sky, followed by a long, glowing tail.…
Hubble Discovers a Magnificent Spiral Galaxy

Hubble Discovers a Magnificent Spiral Galaxy

The stately sweeping spiral arms of the spiral galaxy NGC 5495 are revealed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 in this…
At High Energies, Cosmic Ray Protons Show New Spectral Structures

At High Energies, Cosmic Ray Protons Show New Spectral Structures

Cosmic rays constitute high-energy protons and atomic nuclei that originate from stars (both within our galaxy and from other galaxies) and are accelerated by supernovae…
How a NASA Scientist Searches for Water on Jupiter in the Great Red Spot’s Depths

How a NASA Scientist Searches for Water on Jupiter in the Great Red Spot’s Depths

Scientists have been attempting to comprehend the composition of Jupiter for millennia. It makes sense given that this enigmatic planet is chemically the Sun’s closest…
First Convincing Proof of a Moon outside Our Solar System Discovered by Astronomers

First Convincing Proof of a Moon outside Our Solar System Discovered by Astronomers

With the aid of NASA’s Hubble and Kepler space telescopes, two astronomers from Columbia University have compiled convincing proof of the presence of a moon…
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