Venera was a series of satellites launched by the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s to study Venus’ environment. It was also the program aimed at returning the first images of the surface of another planet. Over the course of the program, …
According to astronomers there are billions of galaxies in the universe, each one of them contain at least a trillion stars. This ultimately means there are likely trillions of habitable planets in the cosmos. But, if such habitable planets…
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…
NASA has reported a catastrophic event is taking place in space, but scientists are still investigating what exactly has happened or happening. Mysterious flashes of X-rays beamed towards Earth before vanishing just 24 hours later, leaving scientists…
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is planned to be launched in 2021 and astronomers consider that this telescope is their best hope of finding life beyond Earth. The JWST is the successor to the Hubble Telescope and is way much more powerful. T…
New images of Jupitar have been released by citizen scientists Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran. A time – lapse sequence has been created of Jupiter’s northern hemisphere and the planet’s striking atmospheric features, highlighted by the colour – enha…
The existential notion of Earth-sized inhabitable exoplanets seems to be confronting our conventional understanding of the vast cosmos. However, the observations made by the Kepler spacecraft infer that one out of every five sun-like stars house an Ea…
Researchers have found the most compelling evidence yet to suggest that there is life on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has identified complex organic compounds in the moon’s icy core. According to scientists, Enceladus contains “a…
We hear a lot about Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, and that’s because we have extremely fancy hardware floating around and, in some cases, cruising on the surface of those planets. The planets that lie further away from the Sun don’t get nearly as much at…
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…
Almost 1 billion years from this moment, the sun will enter its dying phase and blow off its outer atmosphere, eating our minute planet in hot plasma. Fortunately, our galaxy will be left with NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft to remember us as a sig…
Venera was a series of satellites launched by the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s to study Venus’ environment. It was also the program aimed at returning the first images of the surface of another planet. Over the course of the program, thirteen p…
According to astronomers there are billions of galaxies in the universe, each one of them contain at least a trillion stars. This ultimately means there are likely trillions of habitable planets in the cosmos. But, if such habitable planets are so m…
