Scientists from the Starshot Project claim to have discovered the fundamental bases to build a ship that will reach another solar system within our lifetimes. The dream of traveling to another star system for the first time in history is closer t…
Scientists have warned that the planets in our solar system might crash if Neptune's orbit is altered by only 0.1 percent by a passing star. The study, which was published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, shows that a…
If we send a crewed spaceship to Mars right now and it lands in a large canyon and starts exploring, they'll find a massive deposit of water. The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) mission discovered "large volumes of water" in the red plan…
After a week of anticipation, NASA has finally released a historic Hubble Space Telescope image – and it is really stunning. To summarise, the photograph seems to show the farthest distant star ever discovered by humans. According to the scientists b…
Although the Moon does have an atmosphere, it is very thin and mostly made of hydrogen, neon, and argon. This is not a gaseous combination capable of supporting oxygen-dependent animals such as humans. On the Moon, there is an abundance of oxygen. It …
As an astrophysicist, I am always struck by the fact that even the wildest science-fiction stories tend to be distinctly human in character. No matter how exotic the locale or how unusual the scientific concepts, most science fiction ends up being a…
45 years after its launch, NASA's Voyager 1 is still traveling beyond our Solar System. However, the veteran spacecraft is suddenly sending back unusual data that is baffling its engineers. While the probe is still operational, readouts from …
When a massive star runs out of fuel, its core collapses into a dense object, ejecting the remaining gas in a process known as a supernova. What remains are mostly neutron stars or black holes. And now, Hubble seems to have documented the instan…
According to NASA, the Hubble Space Telescope has hit a new milestone in its efforts to determine how rapidly the universe is expanding, and it strongly suggests that something weird is occurring in our universe. In the past few years,astronomers…
There is a "dark object" in our galaxy that is creating gigantic holes. It is invisible, and it may not be composed of conventional matter. It may be something that astronomers have never before identified. And despite the fact that we cann…
After a week of anticipation, NASA has finally released a historic Hubble Space Telescope image – and it is really stunning. To summarise, the photograph seems to show the farthest distant star ever discovered by humans. According to the scientists…
Have you ever tried starting a car that’s been sitting unused for a couple of decades? There’s no guarantee that will even respond, let alone actually start up. That makes the feat NASA achieved just a few days ago even more impressive. The space…
The LIGO discovery, the finding of a merger of 30-solar-mass black holes made astronomers question just how common black holes of such enormous sizes are and the frequency of their mergers. Astronomers of the University of California, Irvine led by UC…
Wolf Cukier, a junior at Scarsdale High School in New York, got a two-month internship with NASA during his junior year. So he went to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. His first task was to investigate fluctuations in sta…
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has discovered “otherworldly” wreckage on Mars. The photographs have been shared globally, with several comments praising the "sci-fi element. The wreckage was spotted by NASA's Mars chopper Ingenuity during a…
It will take thousands of years for humanity's fastest spacecraft to reach even the nearest stars. The Breakthrough Initiatives have been exploring the possibility of reducing this to decades, potentially allowing the scientists who launch the m…
The largest diamond in the cosmos is not found on Earth. In reality, it is a white dwarf star called BPM 37093 or V886 Centauri. An " extinct " or " dead " star is a white dwarf star. Diamond-shaped V886 Centauri floats in outer sp…
