Solar Storm Could Create Chaos on Earth—10 Things You Should Know
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Ground-based and space telescopes recorded possibly the largest surge in solar activity in recent years – within two days, the…
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Nearby Star Produces Solar Flare of Record-Breaking Proportions
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While observing the red dwarf Proxima Centauri with nine ground and space instruments in 2019, astronomers recorded a flash, which…
Permanent Habitable Zones Found Around Multiple Star Systems Raise Hopes Of Alien Life
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It seems that science fiction writers had it all figured out decades ago. We’ve seen movies where habitable planets have…
ESA’s Intuitive Plan to Explore Vast Cave Systems on the Moon
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The European Space Agency has selected two projects to explore lunar caves for further development. One of them involves a rope…
10 Things You Should Know About ’51 Pegasi B’ the First Extrasolar Planet Discovered by Man
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There are over 200 billion planets in the Milky Way. Moreover, over 100 billion galaxies have been discovered so far;…
Astronomers Identify Nearby Planetary System Likely to Host Life as We Know It
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Astronomers have identified a nearby planetary system that is likely to harbor life as we know it. The star system…
Exoplanet Nurseries Revealed In Unprecedented Images of Alien Star Systems
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Astronomers have recently released what is considered the largest collection of sharp, detailed photographs of debris disks surrounding young stars….
NASA’s InSight Lander Spots Solar Eclipse on Mars: Here’s What it Saw
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NASA’s Insight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) mission to Mars, a stationary laboratory dedicated to studying…
NASA’s SOHO Solar Observatory Snaps Image of Massive Comet SWAN
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In late May and early June, Earthlings will get a glimpse of Comet SWAN and will do so with the…
Astronomers Find Black Hole In a Star System You Can See With The Naked Eye
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Astronomers say they have found a black hole that is part of a triple system that can be seen with…
10 Things You Should Know About the Laniakea Supercluster
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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?
Astronomers Detect Isotopes in Distant Alien World’s Atmosphere
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Observations have shown that carbon-13 isotopes are present in the atmosphere of the planet TYC 8998-760-1 b, which have never been discovered on a planet outside the solar system in the past.
Largest Comet Ever Found Shows Unexpected Signs of Activity
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Astronomers using the TESS and NEOWISE space telescopes were able to determine the main parameters of the activity of the…
Deep Neural Network Called ExoMiner Identifies 301 Previously Unknown Alien Planets
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NASA researchers uploaded data from the Kepler telescope in a new neural network called ExoMiner. The algorithm produced amazing results…
Study Claims Miniature Black Holes Smashed Into Earth and the Moon
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Researchers believe that countless miniature black holes formed shortly after the Big Bang. Traveling through space as the universe expanded,…
Group Of Scientists Wants to Make Mars Habitable by Restarting Its Magnetic Field
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Billions of years ago, Mars had a magnetosphere that made the planet far more hospitable than we know it today….
Harvard Astronomers Maintain Oumuamua Might Have Been Alien Tech
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Harvard astrophysicists Amir Siraj and Avi Loeb have refuted the recent hypothesis that Oumuamua was а “nitrogen iceberg”. Scientists suggested…
Our Planet Has a Second Moon, Here’s What You Need to Know
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Five years ago, in 2016, astronomers announced that one celestial body revolves around our planet, which, with a certain stretch,…
Astrophysicist Says We Should Stop Looking For Alien Civilizations — But Why?
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When speaking about the search for alien life, there are two main focuses. In our Solar System and on Mars,…
Scientists Investigate Mystery Moon Bombardment 3.9 Billion Years Ago
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Planetologists from the University of Münster conducted new experiments and confirmed the hypothesis that about 3.9 billion years ago the…
Scientist Warns Our Planet Could Rebel Against Us And Kill Off Humans
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James Lovelock, who turned 102 earlier this year, has come forward with new predictions about our future. He suggests that…
Surprising Discovery Reveals Water in Massive Galaxy in the Ancient Universe
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While observing the distant massive galaxy SPT0311-58, astronomers found signs of the presence of water and carbon monoxide. This galaxy…