Was there ever an Ocean on Venus?
Astrophysicists have investigated Venus’s past to determine whether the Earth’s sister planet once had oceans. Venus can be thought of as Earth’s evil twin. At…
Astronomy
Kepler 186b – an Exoplanet
Kepler 186b is a super Earth exoplanet that orbits an M-type star. It is an exoplanet 582 light-years away from Earth. Kepler-186b is in orbit…
The Device Simulates Life’s First Steps in Space
A new device promises to reveal how the building blocks of life form in space. It simulates the formation of molecules in the freezing darkness…
Kepler-186 – a Main-sequence Dwarf Star
Kepler-186 is a main-sequence M1 dwarf star in the constellation Cygnus, located 178.5 parsecs (582 light years) away. Kepler-186 is located approximately 561.0 light-years (172.0…
51 Pegasi – a Sun-like Star
51 Pegasi is a Sun-like star in the constellation Pegasus, 50.45 light-years (15.47 parsecs) from Earth. It is a fifth-magnitude star 48 light-years from Earth…
47 Ursae Majoris b – an Extrasolar Planet
47 Ursae Majoris b is a gas planet and extrasolar planet located in the constellation Ursa Major, approximately 46 light-years from Earth. It’s an exoplanet…
Perseverance Found Some Unexpected Trash on Mars
Humanity seems to have a habit of leaving rubbish behind wherever we go. Garbage may be found all the way from the Mariana Trench to…
Martian Meteorite Throws into Question Theories of How Rocky Planets Form
Although the isotope ratio of a lesser-known gas in a single meteorite may not appear to be significant, scientists are now questioning how planets like…
Shortly After the Apollo 11 Moon Landings, Scientists Fed Moon Dust to Cockroaches
Today is your fortunate day if you’ve ever gazed at a Moon rock and thought to yourself, “Yeah, it’s really nice, but I wish it…
47 Ursae Majoris – a Yellow Dwarf Star
47 Ursae Majoris is a yellow dwarf star located in the constellation Ursa Major, approximately 46 light-years from Earth. It is 45.9 light-years away from…
Astronomers Think They Have Found the First Free-Floating Black Hole
Astronomers have discovered a large number of black holes, both in other galaxies and in our own, and have even photographed two of them. While…
Wandering Star Has Stellar Nursery’s Magnetic Field in a Twist
Astronomers began looking for the source of a profoundly distorted magnetic field within a stellar nursery. They believe they’ve discovered it in a star that…
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