Astronomer discovered a massive extrasolar planet
About three times the mass of Jupiter, the planet dubbed as Kepler-88 d in a distant planetary system is the most massive planet in...
Hubble captured the sharpest view of the breakup of comet ATLAS
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided astronomers with the sharpest view yet of the breakup of Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS). The telescope resolved...
An asteroid that seems to be wearing a face mask is heading towards earth
First spotted in 1998, the asteroid 52768 (1998 OR2), will fly by the Earth next week. It will pass within 3,908,791 miles of Earth,...
The most detailed map of the moon’s geology ever
To summarize the current state of lunar geologic knowledge, the US Geologic Survey has created one of the most detailed maps of the Moon....
Shock waves from the nova explosion, cause most of the brightness
A nova is an explosion on the surface of a white dwarf. It is hot and burnt-out core of a star that emits an...
A new way of potentially detecting dark matter
Astrophysicists at the University of Amsterdam contemplated the gravitational waves created by the merger of a neutron star and a black hole. They found...
First gravitational wave caught from binary black hole merger with unequal masses
In a first, a group of space experts has identified gravitational waves emerging from the merger of two Binary Black Holes (BBH) with significantly...
Hubble Observes Aftermath of Massive Collision
What astronomers thought was a planet beyond our solar system, has now seemingly vanished from sight. Astronomers now suggest that a full-grown planet never...
A six-planets system discovered
Using the SOPHIE spectrograph, scientists are observing the star HD 158259 in the Draco constellation for seven years. The instrument, until now, has acquired...
Earth-sized exoplanet discovered orbiting in its star’s habitable zone
While looking for the old data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, scientists have discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting in its star's habitable zone.
Dubbed as...
ESO Telescope Sees Star Dance Around Supermassive Black Hole, Proves Einstein Right
Observations made with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed for the first time that a star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the...
Scientists detected most energetic wind from any quasar
Using Gemini North telescope, scientists have detected most energetic wind from any quasar- traveling at speed nearly 13% of the speed of light. Interestingly,...