ASTRONOMY

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