Curious Cosmic Places

Last year, the European Space Agency (ESA) signed a contract for the design, construction, and testing of three spacecraft for…

Inside the ocean of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, global circulation processes can operate, transferring heat and various substances from the bottom…

In March this year, the SEIS seismograph of the automatic station InSight registered two new intense “Marsquakes”. The source of…

Scientists have carried out a remarkable study of Uranus, one of the most distant planets in the Solar System. According…

Earlier in March, NASA announced that the Curiosity rover had reached the foot of Mont Mercou on Mars after a…

Astronomers have found that the first-ever interstellar comet Borisov was also the first observable relic of its planetary system, which…

Astronomers have discovered a new candidate for a black hole of intermediate masses. It is assumed that it has a…

Astronomers have summed up the results of the main scientific program of the TESS space telescope. In two years, it…

The coolest thing about astronomy is that you do not have to be a scientist or an expert to do…

Thanks to the Hubble telescope, NASA specialists were able to see how the unstable atmosphere of Saturn changes with the…

The time from mid-March to early April is the best time to “run” the Messier marathon. Lovers of astronomy every year try…

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft was launched almost 16 years ago, in August 2005, and on March 10 of…

Analysis of comet impacts on Jupiter have helped scientists reveal the existence of storms with winds of unimaginable proportions.  Of…

The ground-based Cherenkov telescope HAWC discovered the most powerful natural cosmic particle accelerator in the Milky Way – it turned…

Decades ago, nobody would have believed that there was water on other planets. And yet, now we know that even…

The Chandra space telescope discovered the most distant X-ray jet of a quasar to date – it existed at a…

For the first time in history, researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (USA) clearly recorded the case of a…

NASA has released two new audio recordings of sounds on Mars. This time, the microphones of the Perseverance rover recorded…

Astronomers were able to estimate the distribution of interplanetary dust between the orbits of the Earth and Jupiter thanks to…

Astronomers using data from orbiters were able to trace the evolution of the unusually long cloud of Mount Arsia on…

Astronomers have discovered the most distant radio-loud quasar to date, which existed at a time when the age of the…

In 2005, the Japanese probe Hayabusa visited the near-Earth asteroid Itokawa and collected samples of its material in an airtight capsule. In 2010,…