NASA's Perseverance rover discovers clues to multiple habitable areas on Mars
Scientists have analyzed rocks from the crater floor, uncovering a diverse set of minerals that tell the story of a complex history of water-rock interactions.
Published: Sep 19, 2025 | By Raj Naik
Hayabusa2’s final target is faster and 3 times smaller than expected—is touchdown still possible?
Critical data from global observatories like the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope has unveiled new challenges for the 2031 rendezvous.
Published: Sep 19, 2025 | By Raj Naik
NASA just confirmed 6,000 alien worlds—and 8,000 more waiting to be verified
This achievement is a significant step in humanity's quest to answer one of the most fundamental questions: "Are we alone?"
Published: Sep 19, 2025 | By Raj Naik
How fast is the Moon moving away from Earth each year?
The Moon is slowly drifting away from Earth, a continuous process driven primarily by the gravitational tug-of-war between our planet's oceans and its lone natural satellite.
Published: Sep 19, 2025 | By Raj Naik
What would happen if Earth became tidally locked to the Moon?
Gravity is the force behind tidal locking, but the Moon's unique case is rooted in a cataclysmic event.
Published: Sep 18, 2025 | By Raj Naik
Take a tour through Milky Way's star-forming regions with Gaia's first 3D fly through map
For decades, thick clouds of gas and dust have obscured the true three-dimensional shapes of these stellar nurseries, making them notoriously difficult for scientists to study.
Published: Sep 17, 2025 | By Raj Naik
New tool helps scientists predict dazzling auroras lighting up the Martian sky
After capturing a second visible-light aurora from the planet's surface, NASA's Perseverance rover confirmed the breakthrough.
Published: Sep 16, 2025 | By Raj Naik
Life on Mars? Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and astrobiologist David Grinspoon break down NASA's latest discovery
NASA has discovered a Martian rock sample containing mineral and organic signatures that, on Earth, are found almost exclusively with biological activity.
Published: Sep 16, 2025 | By Raj Naik
Scientists finally uncover the mysterious solar feature controlling the Sun's magnetic power
UC scientists have finally created a model of the tachocline, a mysterious, thin layer inside the sun that generates its magnetic field.
Published: Sep 16, 2025 | By Raj Naik
Astronomers in search of habitable worlds rule out atmospheric scenarios on exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e
A new study using the Webb Space Telescope has found that the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e is unlikely to possess an atmosphere similar to that of Venus or Mars.
Published: Sep 15, 2025 | By Raj Naik
New research reveals how volcanic gases may have made early Mars a cradle for life
The study challenges previous climate models of the Red Planet that had focused on sulfur dioxide.
Published: Sep 14, 2025 | By Raj Naik
'Loudest ever' gravitational wave provides strong confirmation of Hawking and Kerr's black hole theories
The signal, named GW250114, provides the strongest validation yet for the long-held theories of black hole mechanics proposed by Stephen Hawking and Roy Kerr.
Published: Sep 13, 2025 | By Raj Naik
A 'quasi-moon' asteroid has been orbiting Earth for 60 years—and scientists are just finding out
Pan-STARRS observatory astronomers in Hawaii detected the asteroid, designated 2025 PN7, on August 2, 2025.
Published: Sep 13, 2025 | By Raj Naik
Researchers accidentally discover a giant stellar 'blowtorch' at the Milky Way's border
The JWST captured a rare event, a colossal stellar jet erupting from a developing star in the distant Sharpless 2-284 nebula, located on the outer fringes of the Milky Way.
Published: Sep 13, 2025 | By Raj Naik
Astronomers discover supermassive black holes hiding behind cosmic dust for billions of years—until now
These black holes were found to be hosted by candidate galaxies and formed less than one billion years after the Big Bang.
Published: Sep 12, 2025 | By Mahalekshmi P
Butterfly-shaped hole in the Sun's atmosphere stuns scientists—potential effects on Earth on September 14
The 'coronal hole' is roughly 310,680 miles wide in the sun's atmosphere.
Updated: Sep 12, 2025 | By Raj Naik
NASA finds signs of ancient microbial life on Mars in 'groundbreaking discovery'—what it means for humanity
The 'Sapphire Canyon' sample, collected by the Perseverance rover, is being hailed as the strongest evidence yet found for ancient life on Mars.
Published: Sep 11, 2025 | By Raj Naik
First-ever full measurement of black hole's three-dimensional recoil confirms Einstein's theory
The groundbreaking research focused on a specific gravitational wave signal, GW190412, which was originally detected in 2019.
Published: Sep 11, 2025 | By Raj Naik
Astrophysicists reveal 'Earth-sized' exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e may have atmosphere and liquid water to support life
Of all the exoplanets, TRAPPIST-1e is particularly fascinating to astronomers because its orbit within the habitable zone makes it a prime candidate for having liquid water on its surface.
Published: Sep 9, 2025 | By Raj Naik
Astronomers detect star-forming jets in Milky Way’s outer region, proving star formation follows universal process
Using the powerful ALMA observatory, researchers pinpointed a protostar named Sh 2-283-1a SMM1, located over 51,000 light-years from the galactic center.
Published: Sep 9, 2025 | By Raj Naik