Happy Galileo Day—Here are Galileo Galilei’s Greatest Discoveries
Galileo Galilei was an Italian physicist, astronomer, astrologer, and philosopher, considered together with Francis Bacon to be the founder of…
Galileo Galilei was an Italian physicist, astronomer, astrologer, and philosopher, considered together with Francis Bacon to be the founder of…
Name and Budget Initially, the telescope bore the short but difficult to pronounce name NGST (Next Generation Space Telescope). In…
Hubble holds the record for the longest operation among space telescopes, operating in low-earth orbit for more than 31 years….
Astronomers have discovered the third appearance of a gravitationally lensed supernova explosion dubbed Supernova Requiem. The images of the phenomenon…
An international team of astronomers presented new research focused on the generation of energy around black holes and predicted that…
Astronomers have recorded the shortest gamma-ray burst ever produced by the collapse of a massive star. The discovery may question the generally accepted classification of gamma-ray bursts based on their duration.
Can you tell where our planet is in the universe? Of course, planet Earth is in the Solar System, which in turn is in the Orion Arm, the small galactic arm of the Milky Way. Well, our own galaxy then? Did you know that it is part of the Laniakeа Supercluster along with tens of thousands of other galaxies?
One of the leading questions about aliens is what they will be like when we meet them. Of course, if…
Nothing in space is at rest. Everything moves and revolves – the Earth, the Sun, the Milky Way – and…
Observations of thousands of galaxies made with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey telescope (pictured) have revealed a giant arc of…
The Chandra X-Ray Observatory was launched into space in 1999 and has served a total of almost 22 years in…
In 2021, it was announced that the Giant Magellan Telescope project began crafting the sixth mirror segment out of seven…
Have you heard about SETA? SETA stands for Search for Extraterrestrial Artifacts, and scientists have proposed we should explore the…
A leaked video that shows what appears to be a pyramid-shaped UFO harassing a US Navy Destroyer has been confirmed…
I like to believe that we are not the only developed life forms out there, given the universe’s vastness. The…
This is the best of Hubble. On April 24, 1990, NASA launched one of its most successful missions since the…
The Universe is home to truly gigantic objects. Planets, stars, galaxies, and clusters of galaxies – each of these can…
Before the discovery of Hot Jupiters, no scientist had imagined that such exoplanets could exist. Judging by their given name…
American scientists have found a new explanation for the fact that earthlings, despite many attempts, have not been able to…
Given the size of the universe, the odds are high that extraterrestrial life exists somewhere. Some scientists even estimate that…
The Pleiades are among the most remarkable asterisms. You may wonder what exactly an asterism is – a characteristic, easily…
Yes, you read that correctly – scientists confirmed that a black hole is missing. And more curiously, not any black…