Astronomers studying developments in deep space have come across a previously unknown explosion in white dwarf stars that siphoned material from a companion star. Dubbed Micronovae, the stellar explosion could change the understanding of how eruptions occur in stars. Micronova is a thermonuclear blast that lasts for…
The world watched when Leonardo De Caprio’s Don’t Look Up hit Netflix, warning us of the imminent dangers of asteroids and our slow response to countering them. A similar scenario unfolded last week when astronauts detected an asteroid with a low chance of hitting Earth, crashing to the surface. Yes, an…
Indian astronomers have discovered a planet that is bigger than Jupiter and is orbiting too close to a star in its system. The exoplanet is dubbed TOI 1789b, orbiting an ageing star that is 1.5 times that of our Sun and located 725 light-years away. The discovery was done by the exoplanet search and study group at the…
AUS survey of astronomers puts the search for extraterrestrial life at the top of their to-do list for the next 10 years. In a report issued Thursday by the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, astronomers stressed the need to continue the hunt for potentially habitable planets circling other stars,…
In the search for life beyond Earth, science has taken astronomers to mysterious giant gas planets that race around their host stars in extremely tight orbits. A new study is now shedding more light on the formation of these objects, known as hot Jupiters, as astronomers combine observations from the Hubble space…