Phosphine in the Atmosphere of Venus Could be Sign of Life

SPACE 09.15.2020 07:40 AM

Discovering phosphine gas in Venus and claiming that it may be a a sign of life has been a controversial debate among experts. They have yet to determine the unexplained chemical formation of the gas.

China's Mysterious Reusable Spacecraft Lands After Two-Day Flight

09.06.2020 21:39 PM

China's largely secretive experimental vessel sticks its landing after completing its two-day flight in Earth's orbit, Sunday, September 6.

Dark Distortions: Art Installation Demonstrates How Dark Matter Interacts With Light

08.13.2020 22:18 PM

Dark matter remains one of the most mysterious occurrences in the known Universe, and a new artwork helps explain how it interacts with light.

Arecibo Observatory Reports Damaged Reflector Dish & Cables

08.12.2020 22:49 PM

The Arecibo Observatory has made significant contributions to astronomy since the 1960s. Although it has survived several storms and earthquakes, the cause of the recent damages are still being investigated.

ALMA Finds a Galaxy Like Our Own in the Early Universe

08.12.2020 22:20 PM

After pouring through data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/ submillimeter Array (ALMA), a team of astronomers has found a distant galaxy similar to our own Milky Way.

Study: Phoenix Stream Could Help Explain Milky Way Formation

08.04.2020 09:00 AM

A local globular cluster, called the "Phoenix stream," might be the key to tracing the beginnings of the Milky Way, a new study suggests.

The South Pole Wall: 100 Million Billion Stars Are Found Hiding in the Milky Way

07.11.2020 01:10 AM

A recent discovery of 100 million billion stars hidden the Milky Way is named the South Pole Wall. Cosmographers explain how it's possible to map out what they can't see in space.

Hubble Space Telescope Captures Mesmerizing Images of the Butterfly & Jewel Bug Nebulas

06.19.2020 06:30 AM

It is the first time that astronomers observe clear images of two companion nebulas, revealing mesmerizing symmetrical patterns.

Double Star System with an Alter Ego Discovered, NASA Reports

02.25.2020 21:40 PM

Cosmic 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' are spotted using NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory (Photo : Pixabay)A silhouette of a man sitting on a rock looking up into the sky A double star system or binary stars are two stars orbiting one common center mass.

Neutron Star Collision's Gravitational Waves Detected by LIGO

01.07.2020 06:29 AM

This is the second time the observatory was able to detect gravitational waves from a collision of two neutron stars. However, it's not as grand as the first.

Bright Meteor Shower, the Quadrantids, Showcasing On Our Night Sky This Weekend

01.03.2020 06:51 AM

This chilly January will be an avenue for one of the biggest and brightest meteor showers to occur. The January sky will be a treat to see as the most intense meteor shower will peak tonight and Saturday morning.

Space Oven is Ready for a Test Cook-Off

11.04.2019 07:27 AM

This will be tested to bake chocolate chip cookies from scratch in a zero-gravity environment. Eating is entirely a different matter when you're an astronaut.

Hubble Captures a Ghoulish Image Produced by Twin Galaxies Colliding

11.04.2019 06:56 AM

The crash resulted in the galaxies being pulled and stretched on an outward direction and because of this stretch, star formation turned to shape the nose and face of the intergalactic ghoul.

Nobel Prize in Physics: Meet the three winners who changed the way we think about the universe

10.11.2019 07:48 AM

Groundbreaking discoveries in cosmology and astronomy have earned three scientists the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Largest Black Hole To Date Has Been Discovered

08.27.2019 08:51 AM

The black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy has been thought of as the biggest one, but not until this new discovery discredits that.

Astronomers Discover a “Forbidden Planet”

06.09.2019 23:15 PM

Its mass is 20 Earth masses and it speeds around its star in a full orbit every 1.3 days. Astronomers have found an exoplanet so rare that they have deemed it "The Forbidden Planet," according to a new study.

The Star that Astronomers Say “Should Not Exist”

04.07.2019 21:47 PM

A very old star is found, and its contents are a bit weird. In the halo of the Milky Way, a tiny, ancient star called J0023+0307 drifts about. It's very old indeed, which isn't uncommon for stars in the halo-but it contains no detectable carbon, which is rather unusual.

Black hole In Space Caught On Camera

04.04.2019 07:37 AM

Who would have thought that scientists would be able to get us a picture of the black hole? One of the strangest things that exist in space is the black hole.

The Milky Way’s Mid-section is Full of Relic-like Stars

03.24.2019 11:45 AM

The oldest stars in our galaxy are being studied. Astronomers have gazed into our galaxy and have found some of the oldest stars recorded to date. In a study to be published in the April 2019 issue of the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, researchers analyzed a cluster of old, dim stars called HP1, located about 21,500 light-years away from Earth in the gut of our galaxy's central bulge.

Exploded Supernova 970 Million Years Ago Found By Volunteers From ANU Event

05.28.2017 19:21 PM

An exploded type la supernova was discovered by volunteers an event by the Australian National University. The said supernova has a distance of 970 million light-years or existed during the time of dinosaurs on Earth.

ALMA’s First Radio Detection Of A Lonely Planetary Disk Resembles Between Stars and Planet-like objects

05.21.2017 17:23 PM

The latest radio detection of ALMA hunted down a small, isolated planet-like object in the Chameleon constellation, called OTS44.