Curious Cosmic Places

Around 700 million astronomical objects have been carefully cataloged in a new public database called the Dark Energy Survey, created…

Scientists from the United States have reported the discovery of a rocky super-earth that formed in an old planetary system…

Less than a week after the Juno mission was officially re-extended for another 5 years, it has once again hit…

Imagine that you are a famous astronomer and everyone is waiting for your next great discovery. Suddenly, on a cloudless…

Andromeda is the closest neighboring galaxy to the Milky Way. Located in the constellation with the same name, it can…

NASA has extended the scientific programs of the interplanetary station Juno exploring Jupiter, according to the website of NASA’s Jet Propulsion…

ESA’s Proba-2 satellite constantly monitors changes in solar activity. Since it captures numerous images of our star every day, scientists…

When the “new planet” Eris was presented to the world on July 29, 2005, it did not yet have an…

A new theory proposes that primordial black holes – black holes that formed at the beginning of our universe –…

Have you ever thought about Jupiter’s size and why it hasn’t become a star? If not, I suggest you open…

Do you remember the headlines from a little over 3 years ago in October 2017? For the first time in…

Over the course of several billion years, thousands of meteorites have been falling on the moon’s surface, leaving behind large…

Did you know that lightning exists on other planets in the Solar System and not only on our planet? On…

In October 2018, astronomers observed an approaching small meteorite that was supposed to impact somewhere in Northern Sudan. Fortunately, there…

Not a week passes by without a major reveal by NASA and once again, we are fortunate to see an…

The Pleiades are among the most remarkable asterisms. You may be wondering about what exactly is an asterism –  a characteristic,…

Is there anyone who does not wonder about the existence of aliens? Maybe it’s of great interest to you, or…

As bad as it was, 2020 is almost over. While our lives and daily routines changed completely this year and…

Yes, you read that correctly – scientists confirmed that a black hole is missing. And more curiously, not any black…

Usually, when astronomers talk about “neighboring galaxy”, they mean the Andromeda Galaxy, which is only 2.5 million light-years distant from…

The Viking program can be considered the first truly effective one in the global space exploration efforts of Mars. The…

Humankind has been searching for answers to the big questions in astronomy for centuries. The biggest one is definitely whether…