What happens when two very dense stellar remnants collide? A perfect explosion. Astronomers have now observed one of these perfect explosions that was colossal and the blast was utterly spherical in nature, which happened as two neutron stars merged together. The two neutron stars collapsed to form a black hole as…
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…
It was in 1983 when Simon Green and John Davies spotted Phaethon, the 5.4 kilometers-wide asteroid in data from the Infrared Astronomical Satellite. The asteroid came close to Earth in 2017, passing from a distance of just 10 million kilometers away from the planet. The potentially hazardous asteroid has been behaving…
Earth was hit by an unusually long-lasting pulse on October 9, which has raised global curiosity. The high-energy radiation that swept over Earth is likely from the birth of a black hole and is called a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB), which originated 1.9 billion years ago. The burst was detected for nearly 10 hours and…
The findings point to their physical formation mechanism that might help accelerate the solar wind. The spacecraft has made the first ever observations of mysterious solar switchback the sudden and large deflections of the solar wind’s magnetic field. It provides a full view of the structure, which appears to have an…
These are some of the questions that guide astronomers looking for planets outside our solar system, and this time they might have hit upon a jackpot. A planet that could have a very deep ocean has been discovered. What’s even more interesting is that it is an Earth-like planet. Nearly 100 light years away from…
It was in 2019 when astronomers came together to make the world’s most powerful telescope that was spread across the planet. What the Event Horizon Telescope did was capture the first image of a supermassive black hole at the centre of the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy. While the data processing revealed an incredible…
While the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) gears up to track the life history of plants, astronomers have spotted a unique planet, which is in its infant stage and is so young that it could provide key insights about planetary birth. What makes it even more interesting is that it could lead to the birth of new moons…
The search for an Earth-like planet has taken astronomers not just behind our solar system, but also behind the Milky Way Galaxy and a new planet has raised expectations. Astronomers have discovered a Super-Earth located in the habitable zone of its Red Dwarf star. The only problem is that this planet keeps moving in…
In 2012, Venus came face to face with the Sun and was captured transiting in its orbit. The rare celestial event that happened a decade ago will not happen for another 10 years and astronomers across the world are reminiscing about the event when they saw the planet appear as a black dot crossing with the Sun as its…