Near-Earth asteroid Bennu is an active space rock

Bennu is close to Earth, it's really old and well-preserved. It might even help us in our search for clues to the origins of...

Earth is a less volatile version of the Sun, study

A recent study by the ANU scientists has found that Earth is made from the same elements as the Sun, but has less of...

Mercury, not Venus, is the closest planet to Earth

Which planet is closest to the Earth? The answer is not Venus. Until now, we have read in our science books, or even if searching...

Cooking up alien atmospheres on earth

NASA's JPL scientists are recreating conditions that found in the atmospheres of a special class of exoplanets called 'hot Jupiters' using a high-temperature "oven"...

A Cosmic Bat in Flight

ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has caught a glimpse of an ethereal nebula hidden away in the darkest corners of the constellation of Orion...

Wonderful!! 83 supermassive black holes found in the early universe

Supermassive black holes, found at the centers of galaxies, can be millions or even billions of times more massive than the sun. While they...

NASA spotted hopping liquid water on Moon’s surface

Earth’s Moon was once assumed to be a dry and dusty place, but over time that image has changed. But the Moon isn't nearly...

Untangling information about what a black hole ate

A black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light can not get out. The gravity is so...

Crew Dragon Splashes Down in Atlantic Ending First Commercial Crew Mission

On March 2, a commercially-built and operated American crew spacecraft and the rocket was launched and underwent to the International Space Station. Known as Demo-1,...

Hubble & Gaia accurately weigh the Milky Way

The mass of the Milky Way is one of the most fundamental measurements astronomers can make about our galactic home. However, despite decades of...

AstroSat discovers new group of stars in globular cluster NGC 2808

The Indian multi-wavelength space observatory AstroSat launched in September 2015 continues to yield exciting results. Using this observatory, astronomers from Thiruvananthapuram and Mumbai have...

Kepler’s first planet candidate confirmed, 10 years later

In February 2019, Ashley Chontos, a graduate student of University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy, confirmed the existence of a massive hot Jupiter Kepler-1658b...

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