Solar Orbiter Spacecraft Snaps Never-Before-Seen “Close-up” Image of Our Sun
See the most complete image of the Sun to date The Solar Orbiter was launched into space at the beginning…
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See the most complete image of the Sun to date The Solar Orbiter was launched into space at the beginning…
A groundbreaking new theory about Jupiter’s moon Europa An American research team led by Mark Hesse of the University of…
Asteroid Ryugu: Research, Properties, Theories The research of the near-Earth asteroid (162173) Ryugu was carried out by the Hayabusa-2 interplanetary…
How astronomers detect new exoplanets Astronomers began to detect exoplanets relatively recently and today the number of confirmed ones is…
A new unusual idea suggests that at the moment of the Big Bang, a “mirror” Universe appeared along with ours,…
The James Webb Space Infrared Telescope team announced the successful completion of the fifth stage of the optical system alignment,…
Astronomers using ground-based telescopes discovered an asteroid as it was about to impact Earth. Asteroid 2022 EB5 became the fifth…
When will humans land on the Moon again? After the moon race of the 1960s and 1970s, interest in landing…
We can find our Solar System’s nearest neighboring stars at a distance of just over four light-years away; Proxima Centauri….
Astronomers using the NICER X-ray monitor recorded the movement and merging of X-ray spots on a magnetar in a state…
Planetary scientists working with soil samples from the asteroid Ryugu, delivered to Earth by the Hayabusa2 interplanetary station, have published…
Astronomers have determined the age of the Fermi bubbles – giant structures observed in the central zone of the Milky…
Studying planet formation Observing what lies within a circumstellar disc is critical to discovering important insights into the formation of…
Astronomers saw how the kilonova explosion, initiated by the merger of two neutron stars, increased in brightness several years after…
Close binary systems Most massive OB-type main sequence stars are in binary or multiple systems, among which close binary systems…
Planetologists presented the results of studies of the third-largest impact crater Urvara on the dwarf planet Ceres. The results of…
Astronomers discovered a unique spinning black hole. For the first time, they measured with great precision the angle between the…
James Webb’s main mirror The main mirror of the James Webb, consisting of 18 segments, has an area of 25…
Researchers have managed to chart a quarter of the northern hemisphere sky and have revealed never-before-seen details of a total…
Chang’e 4 mission overview The automatic station Chang’e-4 made a soft landing on the far side of the moon on…
The new observatory will be able to track interstellar objects The operating time of the telescope will be divided into…
Astronomers confirmed the first quadruple asteroid in history – this is Elektra from the Main Belt, which has now acquired…