For the first time, astronomers have observed a white dwarf star ‘switching on and off’ in less than 30 minutes. The researchers, led by Durham University in the United Kingdom, announced on October 18 that they used NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet … Read More
For now, life is flourishing on our oxygen-rich planet, but Earth wasn’t always this way – and scientists predict that the atmosphere will revert to one rich in methane and low in oxygen in the future. This is unlikely to … Read More
Galaxies exchange matter with their external environment thanks to galactic winds. For the first time, the MUSE instrument from the Very Large Telescope has mapped the galactic wind that drives these exchanges between galaxies and nebulae. This discovery led to … Read More
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission captured its first images of its destination planet Mercury as it swooped past in a close gravity assist flyby. The closest approach occurred on October 1, 2021, at 23:34 UTC, at an altitude of 199 km … Read More
A comet so massive that it was initially misidentified as a dwarf planet is on its way in from the outer Solar System. There’s no need to be concerned; C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein), as the comet is known, will pass just … Read More
A team of researchers has accidentally found two galaxies that were hidden from view sitting at the edge of space and time. Yoshinobu Fudamoto, an astronomer at the Research Institute for Science and Engineering at Waseda University, Japan, and the … Read More