NASA’s James Webb Telescope maps 400-light-year-distant planet in 3D, revealing heat so extreme it breaks water apart
An artistic depiction of the WASP-18b exoplanet (Image source: NASA) NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has mapped the…
Rediscovery Of India’s Oldest Astronomical Text
Mahāsalilam – A Vedāṅga Text on Astral Sciences (Vṛddhagārgīya Jyotiṣa 24th Aṅga). Prof. R N Iyengar. Central Sanskrit…
Astronomers Discover a Suspiciously Hard-to-See Object That Just Might Be Evidence of Dark Matter
Astronomers have discovered an extremely faint, low-mass object in the distant cosmos, raising suspicion that it could be…
Scientists Spot Two Black Holes Caught in a Deadly Orbital Dance for the First Time
When two black holes meet, they are drawn to one another by way of their enormous gravity, initiating…
Future SpaceX Starship flights could cross Southern Arizona
Elon Musk’s Starship could one day streak through the skies above parts of Southern Arizona — and cause…
The observable universe is just 5% of reality, 95% remains invisible!
Ordinary matter, also called baryonic matter, consists of protons, neutrons, and electrons. This is the material that emits…
5 mysteries of the solar system that still baffle scientists
In 2017, astronomers detected ‘Oumuamua, an interstellar object passing through our solar system. Its unusual shape and acceleration…
Observable universe is 93 billion light years wide but what’s beyond it? Here’s what we can’t see…
One of the most important pieces of evidence for this limit is the cosmic microwave background radiation, faint…
5 shocking near-death encounters of Voyager 2 you didn’t know about!
Voyager 2, launched by NASA on August 20, 1977, was designed to explore the outer planets and ultimately…
Dark matter discovery: Dark matter mystery Why there is no light yet after decades of search
In 1933, Swiss astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky was observing the Coma Cluster — a massive congregation of galaxies about…