Astronomers have discovered that two exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf star that are unique in their composition. These two exoplanets are unlike any other discovered outside the Solar System. These two planets are filled with water. These water worlds located in a planetary system 218 light-years away in the…
Over a month after Nasa successfully deflected an asteroid in deep space, astronomers have found three new Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs) and they have been hiding in the inner solar system, making them difficult to find. A 1.5-kilometer-wide object, among the three, has an orbit that may someday place it in Earth’s…
The James Webb Space Telescope on Wednesday beamed back a series of images taken from the edge of the solar system, which showed Neptune out there in the vacuum of space. The image showed the planet covered in rings that had not been seen before. Our Solar System has several planets with rings, including Saturn and…
Launched from Earth in 1977 to explore the world of Jupiter and Saturn, the twin Voyager probes are still alive and kicking, but not in the solar system. The two probes have been operating in interstellar space, crossing the heliospheric boundary where our Sun’s impact ends. Known as the time capsule of a bygone…
The Sun, which is the source of all life on the planet, is buzzing with activity as it reaches the peak of the solar cycle. The star in our solar system in just two weeks has emitted 35 Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), 14 sunspots, and six solar flares, while some of them have been away from us, others have directly hit…
It was in 2017 when an object raised curiosity among astronomers and commoners the world over. Oumuamua, was coming from outside of our solar system, the region known as interstellar space. But, was it the first visitor to travel close to Earth? At the time it was. A secret memo released by the US Space Command now…
The Hubble Space Telescope, which has remained our eyes and ears, into the mysteries of deep space, is in no mood to disappoint even after three decades of its record service. The flying observatory has now revealed the largest icy comet nucleus ever seen by astronomers. Dubbed C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein),…
When humans began looking into the sky, the first thought that popped the scientific curiosity was are we alone in the universe? In time, we discovered planets around the Sun, separated by billions of kilometers, forming our solar system. Nasa has gone a step beyond that cosmic boundary and confirmed there are more…
When humans began space exploration, the first question that appeared was how did our planet form? With the discovery of many other planets, it changed to how the solar system was formed? A long-standing theory remains that the system was shaped by mega-collisions between rocky bodies. Astronomers have now spotted a…
Scientists have spotted one of the smallest planets ever discovered outside our solar system, a scorching-hot world a bit larger than Mars and just about as dense as pure iron zooming around its home star every eight hours. The researchers said on Thursday they managed to detect the planet, located a relatively close…