Astronomy

According to an international team of scientists, a 900-year-old cosmic riddle regarding the origins of a renowned supernova originally witnessed above China in 1181AD has…

Kepler-51 is a Sun-like star that is just about 500 million years old. It is a 500-million-year-old G-type star located 2,615 light-years away in the…

GJ 3470 is a red dwarf star located 30 parsecs from Earth in the constellation Cancer. GJ 3470 b is an exoplanet that orbits the…

What exactly is a Dwarf Planet? A dwarf planet, according to the International Astronomical Union, is a celestial entity that orbits the sun, has enough…

According to a new study, the presence of methane in the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System could be a significant signal for…

Reanalysis of photos acquired by the New Horizons spacecraft in 2015 found mountains on Pluto, at least one of which rises higher than any on…

When the full moon coincides with the moon’s closest approach to Earth in its orbit, it is called a supermoon. Supermoons make the moon appear…

Gliese 3470 b is an exoplanet that orbits the star Gliese 3470 in the Cancer constellation. It is an exoplanet similar to Neptune that orbits…

Galaxies are also moving apart due to the expansion of the Universe caused by the Big Bang. A galaxy that is part of a collection…

On May 4, a magnitude 5 earthquake struck the surface of Mars, the biggest temblor ever observed not only on Mars, but on any planet…

The huge flaming orb churns forth a continual onslaught of charged particles known as the solar wind. Auroras dance in our polar sky due to…

Charon, the largest of the dwarf planets, is tidally locked with Pluto and is enormous enough to be considered a double dwarf planet. It took…