Remember when you were a kid and you used to stare up into the clouds and pick out shapes and animals? Well Chris Keegan has taken that timeless exercise to whole new level by applying it to…
A study of the small galaxies swallowed by our nearest large galactic neighbor has revealed something of how galaxies grow. In the process, it has hinted at something that, if true, would change the way…
The possibility of life on the other planets in the Solar System has always been deliberated by astronomers and scientists in an effort to search for water on these entities. However, this might not be…
Where galaxies live in the universe and the way they interact with their surroundings, i.e. the intergalactic medium around them, mainly influences their ability to produce new stars. The ambiguity of this interaction is precisely…
In the present universe, thousands of galaxies come together to form full-blown galaxy clusters. These clusters are the largest astronomical objects in the universe and are connected to each other, making up for the large-scale…
Whenever someone strikes up a conversation with me about the universe, I get animated. No surprise there: I’ve made a living writing about astronomy, physics, geology, spaceflight, and related areas of science for nearly a decade, and…
Mars rovers being launched next summer WILL find life on the red planet, Nasa’s chief scientist predicts – but he warns Earth is not prepared for the ‘revolutionary’ discovery Europe’s ExoMars Rover and NASA’s Mars…
The violent black hole was spotted by NASA’s planet-hunting TESS space probe and confirmed by ground-based observatories. Astronomers were alerted to the event when a star monitored by TESS unexpectedly grew brighter. The event, known…
In 1978, NASA’s Pioneer Venus (aka. Pioneer 12) mission reached Venus (“Earth’s Sister”) and found indications that Venus may have once had oceans on its surface. Since then, several missions have been sent to Venus and gathered…
Astronomers have found compelling evidence for the existence of ‘liquid’ water on a Super-Earth Exoplanet, according to Space Telescope. The K2-18B, with eight times the mass of Earth, orbits a red dwarf star, 111 light years…
A large-scale 3D map of the Milky Way shows its warped shape with a new level of detail and accuracy. Researchers measured the distances between our sun and 2,400 stars to map their three-dimensional coordinates across the Milky Way. Scientists still…
Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets, or worlds beyond the solar system. In June, researchers announced they had logged the 4,000th such planet into a NASA catalogue. The first was found in 1992. Two artists have illustrated all…
It’s no secret that Ariana Grande is a fan of space and, by extension, the folks over at NASA. And it turns out that the love is reciprocal, seeing as how a group of interns at NASA’s Johnson Space Center…