Space

Shrinking moon may be causing moonquakes

NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter recently spotted wrinkles and quakes on the moon, suggesting that our moon is slowly shrinking over time. The moon is getting...

Martian full moon looks like candy

NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter, for the first time, has captured the Martian moon Phobos during a full moon phase. The image is a kind...

Boeing revealed a video of its successful Starliner parachute test

On Friday, Boeing an American Aircraft manufacturing company has shared some behind-the-scenes footage of a successful parachute test for its Starliner crew capsule. "It's part...

Universe’s earliest galaxies were brighter than expected

Using NASA's Spitzer Telescope, astronomers have recently found cues on how galaxies lit up the universe. According to their findings, some of the Universe's...

New method to provide a clearer window into dark universe

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is thought to be leftover radiation from the Big Bang or the time when the universe began. Also known...

Jets and winds from galaxy cores appear to share a common cause

Fundamental considerations of the energy supply in large-scale extragalactic radio sources("radio galaxies") led astronomers to predict that these sources should contain jets or beams...

Explosions of universe’s first stars spewed powerful jets

After the Big Bang and before the first stars ignited, the universe was a very dark and cold place. There were no galaxies, no...

2,65,000 galaxies in an extensive legacy field mosaic

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has recently captured an image of a legacy field, showing 2,65,000 galaxies, each at different stages in their life cycles,...

Telescopes in space for even sharper images of black holes

Recently, the Event Horizon Telescope has released the first direct image of a black hole and its neighborhood. Now, astronomers have the challenge of...

Physicists have detected first-ever collision of black hole and neutron star

The National Science Foundation's Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the European-based Virgo detector recently detected the first ever observed merger between a black...

Pluto’s atmosphere could disappear soon

Puto's atmosphere contains tenuous layer of gases surrounding the planet. It consists mainly of nitrogen (N2), with minor amounts of methane (CH4) and carbon...

Assembling wide view of the evolving universe

Astronomers have put together the largest and most comprehensive "history book" of galaxies into one single image, using 16 years' worth of observations from...

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