Astronomers have used JWST’s interferometric mode to analyze the extrasolar system PDS 70. (Image credit: Blakely et al., 2024, CC BY 4.0) Planets form in spiral disks of gas and dust surrounding young stars. Astronomers are keenly interested in the…
An artist’s rendering of an alien ecosystem. (Image credit: Getty) A new model suggests that the origin of human life was less unlikely than scientists previously thought, a discovery that raises the chances of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe,…
John McFall (centre right) could become the first astronaut with a disability in space after being cleared for a future mission aboard the ISS. (Photo credit: ESA/Novespace) A former British Paralympian has been cleared to take part in an upcoming…
An artist’s impression of a dead galaxy compared to the Milky Way. (Image credit: NASA/ESA, Z. Levy (STScI)) Our universe is home to many stellar graveyards—dead galaxies filled with the burnt-out remains of once-shining stars. But one of these ancient…
An illustration of a black circle in space shooting a beam of light out of its center (Image credit: ESO Kornmesser) Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to take the longest look yet at our galaxy’s supermassive…
Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 1 in 32 chance of hitting Earth at the time of writing. (Image credit: Sciepro via Getty Images) The probability that a major asteroid, big enough to wipe out an entire city, will hit Earth…
A photo of a total lunar eclipse, or “blood moon”, over Tokyo in 2022. (Image credit: YOSHIKAZU TSUNO via Getty Images) A total lunar eclipse is coming to Earth for the first time since 2022. On the night of March…
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/SSI) What do clouds on Mars look like? Well, a new video stitched together from images captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover offers a glimpse. In this video, delicate red-and-green-tinted clouds are seen drifting through the Martian sky in…
Pan-STARRS1 opened within the review the space object which received name 2020 SO can be on September 17, 2020, the Hawaiian observatory Haleakala artificial. Initially, scientists mistook it for a small asteroid. However, further observations of it showed behavior uncharacteristic…
SpaceIL, a non-profit Israeli initiative whose spacecraft crashed while trying landing on the moon last year, announced yesterday, Wednesday, the planned launch of another lunar mission, whose partners will be Israeli government agencies. This project, called Beresheet 2, involves the…
The ExoMars probe discovered large reserves of ice in one of the deep canyons located in the center of the Mariner valleys of Mars. The results of the study were published by the scientific journal Icarus. “The TGO probe can…
A comet exploded over the Atacama Desert in Chilie. This is the conclusion reached by geologists from the USA. The catastrophe led to the fact that in some places in the desert melted the sand and formed glassy rock. The…