ASTRONOMY

Moon dust brought back 50 years ago is now revealing how the Sun changes the lunar surface

The degree of space weather impact determines how bright soils appear.
Published: Dec 11, 2025  |  By Raj Naik

What will happen when the Sun runs out of fuel?

Astronomer Dr. Christopher Manser has stated that the Sun will run out of hydrogen in its core as it dies, becoming a red giant in about 5 billion years.
Updated: Dec 10, 2025  |  By Mahalekshmi P

Sun fires off massive X-class flare resulting in radio blackouts in Australia and parts of Southeast Asia

The enormous burst of energy, which peaked at 12:01 a.m. on December 8, was imaged by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.
Published: Dec 9, 2025  |  By Raj Naik

First discoveries from Subaru Telescope's OASIS survey reveal a massive planet and a brown dwarf

The findings represent the first major results from OASIS, a program that uses advanced telescope instruments to seek out large planets and brown dwarfs.
Published: Dec 9, 2025  |  By Raj Naik

NASA and NOAA forecast CME impact on December 9, geomagnetic storm warning issued

The space weather alert was triggered by an M8-class solar flare from sunspot 4299 on December 6, which immediately preceded the incoming CME.
Published: Dec 8, 2025  |  By Raj Naik

Time moves faster on Mars than on Earth—physicists explain why

Physicists found that clocks on Mars will tick 477 microseconds (millionths of a second) faster than on Earth per day, on average.
Published: Dec 8, 2025  |  By Mahalekshmi P

NASA's Hubble captures new view of 3I/ATLAS as ESA’s Juice spots heightened comet activity

The Hubble captured the image on November 30, while Juice caught a glimpse of the interstellar visitor shortly after perihelion.
Published: Dec 5, 2025  |  By Saubhagya Mukherjee

NASA astronomers warn explosive satellite growth poses 'a very severe threat' to space telescope data

The population of satellites could grow to a massive 560,000 by the end of the 2030s.
Updated: Dec 16, 2025  |  By Saubhagya Mukherjee

Astronomers stunned by giant rotating chain of 14 galaxies—possibly the 'largest spinning object' ever discovered

The object in question is a cosmic filament, a thread-like chain of gas that is about 5.5 million light-years in length and 117,000 light-years in width.
Published: Dec 4, 2025  |  By Saubhagya Mukherjee

3I/ATLAS's anti-tail pointing toward the Sun may be created by a swarm of objects, says Harvard astronomer

Avi Loeb's hypothesis follows the reasoning that this tail stretches tens of thousands of miles and is bright enough to show up in stacked telescopic images.
Updated: Dec 3, 2025  |  By Bhargavi PBA

First-ever map of Mars’ massive drainage systems hints the planet may once have been a world built for life

As many as 19 big clusters were discovered, but 16 of them crossed the threshold for large drainage basins.
Published: Dec 3, 2025  |  By Saubhagya Mukherjee

Earth hit by fierce X-class solar flare, triggering a significant radio blackout across Australia

The flare peaked at 9:49 p.m. ET on November 30 and triggered an R3-level radio blackout on the sunlit side of Earth.
Published: Dec 2, 2025  |  By Saubhagya Mukherjee

Giant sunspot larger than expected swings to face Earth after unleashing M-class solar flare

The sunspot, initially classified as large, came fully into view on November 30, confirming its truly vast size.
Updated: Dec 1, 2025  |  By Raj Naik

What would happen to Earth if the Moon exploded?

The consequences of the Moon exploding will be felt in a variety of ways, and none of them will be good.
Updated: Dec 1, 2025  |  By Mahalekshmi P

Perseverance rover detects electric discharge in Martian dust storms for the first time

The SuperCam's microphone unexpectedly picked up the signals from two dust devils.
Published: Nov 27, 2025  |  By Raj Naik

New images show the death of 'other' comet ATLAS as it shatters into multiple fragments

Comet C/2025 K1 ATLAS, an Oort Cloud object found by ATLAS in May, skimmed past the Sun on October 8 at 31 million miles.
Published: Nov 27, 2025  |  By Raj Naik

In new 3I/ATLAS image, two glowing ion tails and a faint anti-tail stun the internet

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb thinks that the nature of the two tails implies a mass loss that is not visible in 3I/ATLAS.
Updated: Nov 26, 2025  |  By Raj Naik

Small icy moons are hiding boiling oceans deep under their frozen shells, scientists say

Unlike geology on Earth, which is driven by the movement of deep rock, the action on icy moons is powered by the dynamics of water and ice.
Published: Nov 25, 2025  |  By Raj Naik

Are we alone in the universe? NASA's technosignature grant could help solve the mystery

After a decade focused on simple 'biosignatures,' researchers are increasingly pivoting the search for alien life toward detecting technological output.
Published: Nov 25, 2025  |  By Raj Naik

Earth and Theia were cosmic neighbors before the Moon-forming collision, study finds

After the big collision, Theia's traces could be found in the composition of the Earth and the Moon.
Published: Nov 25, 2025  |  By Mahalekshmi P