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These images of Titan were taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope on July 11, 2023
Space

First-ever cloud convection observed in Titan’s northern hemisphere

Amit Malewar

Webb’s titan forecast.

vesta asteroid
Space

One of the most significant objects in our solar system’s asteroid belt doesn’t have a core

Amit Malewar

New findings change how Vesta is defined as not quite an asteroid or a planet.

Eos
Space

Astronomers discover Eos, a vast cloud of hydrogen near the Solar system

Amit Malewar

A giant on the edge of the Local bubble.

multiple glowing red meteorites
Space

Mystery solved: Why do carbon-rich asteroids rarely become Earth meteorites?

Amit Malewar

The most comprehensive study of its kind.

Giant black hole awakens with recurring X-ray bursts
Space

Black hole awakens with historic X-Ray storms

Amit Malewar

From boring to bursting.

A digital illustration of the immense explosion of this double white dwarf binary star system, named WDJ181058.67+311940.94. In this picture, we capture the binary in the moment where the first white dwarf has just exploded, hurtling material towards its nearby companion which is on the cusp of explosion too. This event will occur in about 23 billion years, yet in only 4 seconds do both stars explode (Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick)
Space

Astronomers spot two white dwarfs on a collision course

Amit Malewar

A rare binary star pair destined for supernova just 150 light-years away

Neptune Auroras (Hubble and Webb Image)
Space

Webb captures Neptune’s mysterious auroras for the first time

Editorial Team

For the first time, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured bright auroral activity on Neptune. Auroras occur when energetic particles, often originating...

Radioburst Dwarfstar Binary
Space

Stellar union sparks radio pulses lasting minutes

Amit Malewar

Compact objects other than neutron stars are capable of producing bright radio emission.

asteroid bennu
Space

Big revelation: Life’s ingredients found in NASA’s asteroid Bennu sample

Amit Malewar

Conditions necessary for the emergence of life were widespread across the early solar system.

spiral galaxy NGC 1086
Space

Unprecedented view of supermassive black hole in action

Amit Malewar

Enhanced understanding of AGN environments and host galaxy interactions.

early-agn
Space

Most distant and therefore oldest blazar ever seen

Amit Malewar

Early universe had more supermassive black holes than previously thought.

trans-Neptunian objects
Space

Webb gives the best glimpse ever into the icy planetesimals of the early solar system

Pranjal Malewar

A clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved.

TRAPPIST-1 b
Space

The light of the planet TRAPPIST-1 b measured in two color

Amit Malewar

New insights on the planet’s nature.

colored view of Jupiter
Space

Astronomers discovered two great spots at the Jupiter’s north and south poles

Amit Malewar

Unusual magnetically driven vortices may be generating Earth-size concentrations of hydrocarbon haze.

Fastest-feeding Black Hole in the Early Universe
Space

Fastest-feeding black hole: Consuming matter at over 40 times its theoretical limit

Amit Malewar

A low-mass supermassive black hole.

age of Moon's oldest impact basin
Space

Scientists pinpointed the age of the largest and oldest impact basin on the Moon

Pranjal Malewar

Uncovering its ancient impact history.

Galaxy NGC 1549
Space

Webb observed ‘inside-out’ growth of a galaxy in the early Universe

Amit Malewar

Only 700 million years after the Big Bang.

Artist’s impression of a planet-forming disk surrounding a young star
Space

Webb reveals elusive details in young star systems

Amit Malewar

Winds of change.

The asteroid is believed to have a dirty, icy crust
Space

Ceres: From ocean world to icy giant

Amit Malewar

Asteroid Ceres is a former ocean world that slowly formed into a giant, murky icy orb.

Nearby Basins
Space

Fresh insights into the large-scale cosmic structure

Amit Malewar

Study mapped out the gravitational “basins of attraction” in the local Universe.

Artist's illustration of the exoplanet WASP-107b
Space

A glimpse of a uniquely inflated and asymmetric exoplanet

Amit Malewar

The exoplanet WASP-107b is tidally locked to its star.

'Pablo's galaxy'
Space

A black hole ‘starving’ its host galaxy to death

Amit Malewar

However, this galaxy is essentially ‘dead’.

binary system
Space

A long-hidden small black hole discovered in an unusually evolved binary system

Amit Malewar

Scientists discovered a low-mass dark object located in the binary system G3425.

space
Space

AI helps disentangle self-interacting dark matter and cosmic noise

Amit Malewar

The innovation promises to greatly enhance the precision of dark matter studies.

Galaxy planets digital art
Space

Astrophysicists harness AI to calculate the Universe’s ‘settings’ precisely

Amit Malewar

The results were a significant improvement over the values produced by previous methods.

Where's the water
Space

Planets contain more water than thought

Amit Malewar

Magma soup with water and iron.

First meteoroid impact detected by NASA’s InSight mission; the image was taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera.
Space

Basketball-sized meteorite hit Mars almost daily

Amit Malewar

Seismological data from NASA's Mars InSight lander to derive a new impact rate for meteorite strikes on Mars.

Scientists detect slowest-spinning radio emitting neutron star ever recorded
Space

Scientists discovered the slowest-spinning radio-emitting neutron star

Amit Malewar

Most collapsed stars rotate faster than once per second. This one takes nearly an hour.

ESA Solar Orbiter
Space

Unraveling the Mystery of Slow Solar Wind: Insights from Solar Orbiter

Editorial Team

Researchers have made progress in uncovering the enigmatic beginnings of the 'slow' solar wind.

This is an artist's impression of a Kuiper Belt object (KBO)
Space

The Discovery of CO2 and CO Ices in the Outer Solar System

Amit Malewar

Researchers Discover Carbon Dioxide and Carbon Monoxide Ices on Trans-Neptunian Objects The Discovery of CO2 and CO Ices in the Outer Solar System

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Invention

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Invention

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Wildlife

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Wildlife