The sharpest views of Ultima Thule
The scientists behind NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft have released the sharpest possible view of the Ultima Thule. Just before making the closest approach to...
A Japanese spacecraft landed on an asteroid Ryugu and fired a bullet into it
A Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 has successfully landed on a distant space rock Ryugu for sample retrieval. The refrigerator-sized Hayabusa 2 craft settled on asteroid Ryugu...
Moon could be a chemical factory for water
Using a computer program, NASA scientists have recreated a chemical procedure through which elements for water could be made on the surface of the...
In colliding galaxies, a pipsqueak shines bright
In the nearby Whirlpool galaxy and its companion universe, M51b, two supermassive black holes heat up and devour encompassing material. These two beasts ought...
Hubble helps uncover origin of Neptune’s smallest moon Hippocamp
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, along with older data from the Voyager 2 probe, have revealed more about the origin of Neptune’s...
Mars rover opportunity ends mission after 15 years
Goodbye to NASA's Mars rover Opportunity. NASA’s robotic geologist fitted with an array of tools to search for evidence of water, ended its mission...
NASA now wants to explore the origin of the Universe
In a new mission, NASA has decided to explore the origin of the universe- solving a long term mystery- how our universe evolved and how...
Milky Way’s galactic collision with Andromeda to happen earlier than previously thought
According to a new study, the galactic collision of Milky Way with its largest neighbor, the starry Andromeda, will happen earlier than previously thought. The...
Uranus looking totally messed up right now
The presence of a massive white cap on Uranus may appear to be disturbing, yet as planetary scientists are learning, this is the thing...
The truly odd shape of Ultima Thule
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft offers an evocative series of an image- a departing view of the Kuiper Belt object (KBO) nicknamed Ultima Thule.
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Study finds HD 179821 less massive than previously thought
A new study suggests that a post-asymptotic giant branch (post-AGB) star known as HD 179821 ends up being essentially less massive than recently thought....
Bubbles of brand new stars
This dazzling region of newly-forming stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) was captured by the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer instrument (MUSE) on ESO’s...