Researchers Discover Ice and Possibly Methane on the Faraway Dwarf Planet Snow White
The dwarf planet 2007 OR10, also known as Snow White, is an icy globe with roughly half of its surface covered in water ice that…
Astronomy
17-Year-Old Stellar Mystery Solved by Comet Collisions Every 6 Seconds
Near a naked-eye star in the constellation Cetus named 49 CETI, comets have been crashing into one another every six seconds for millions of years.…
Frozen Plains Found by NASA’s New Horizons in Pluto’s “Heart”
A fresh close-up view of Pluto in the most recent data from NASA’s New Horizons probe shows a wide, craterless plain that appears to be…
NASA Is Trying To Stop an Auction Because It Wants Its Moon Dust-Fed Cockroaches Back
A strange sample was put up for auction earlier this month at Boston’s Remarkable Rarities Auction, and NASA is gently asking that the sale be…
How to Watch the Best Five-Planet Alignment since 1864 Happening This Week
Tomorrow morning, an hour before dawn, you may view five planets in a beautiful line in the Eastern sky. Not only that, but they will…
Kepler-186e – a Confirmed Exoplanet
Kepler-186 e is a super Earth exoplanet that orbits a M-type star. It is a confirmed exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf star Kepler-186 in the…
Researchers Claim that Saturn’s Tilt is caused by its Moons
The tilt of Saturn’s rotation axis may be caused by its moons, according to scientists from CNRS, Sorbonne University, and the University of Pisa. The…
Using a Deep Neural Network, find the Sun’s hidden Turbulent Motion
An artificial intelligence model can now detect and predict the turbulent motions occurring within the Sun’s atmosphere. This neural network was created by a team…
The Icy Core of Pluto causes Winds to Blow
According to a new study, Pluto’s winds are controlled by a “beating heart” of frozen nitrogen, which may give rise to features on its surface.…
In the Cartwheel Galaxy, Webb captures Stellar Gymnastics
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the chaos of the Cartwheel Galaxy, revealing new information about star formation and the galaxy’s central black…
This Glorious Simulation Is the Most Realistic Model of Sagittarius A Yet
Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole in its heart. The most precise representation of Sagittarius A*, the monstrous object at the heart of our…
Why is Mercury’s Iron Core so Massive?
A new study questions why Mercury has a large core in comparison to its mantle (the layer between a planet’s core and crust). For decades,…
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