Exploration of galaxies at much greater distances from Earth may now be possible. How do stars form in distant galaxies? Astronomers have been trying to answer this question for a long time by detecting radio signals emitted by nearby galaxies. … Read More
We are living in a new era of space exploration, with multiple agencies planning to send astronauts to the Moon in the coming years. This will be followed in the coming decade by crewed missions to Mars by NASA and … Read More
What is slightly larger than our Moon but nearly 1.4 times the mass of our Sun? ZTF J1901+1458, one of the tiniest white dwarf stars ever discovered. A series of ground- and space-based telescopes observed the dying husk of a … Read More
LHS 475 b is a rocky exoplanet roughly the same size as Earth that orbits very close to a small, dim star. And for the first time, researchers are able to study the planet’s atmosphere. The James Webb Space Telescope … Read More
New research has been published on the organic analysis of the Winchcombe meteorite, which crashed landed on a driveway in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, in 2021. Dr. Queenie Chan of the Department of Earth Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London, led … Read More
In the entire Universe, we know of only one planet capable of supporting life. That is the planet Earth. So, when we look for exoplanets that could support life, we look for a rocky exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star at … Read More