The Sun, a crucial and omnipresent aspect of our lives, still holds many mysteries despite its importance. Recently, it has displayed a remarkable occurrence. A filament of plasma from the Sun’s surface broke away and seemingly formed a vortex resembling … Read More
Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System, has just added 12 new moons to its collection, bringing its total number of moons to 92 and solidifying its position as the planet with the most moons. The discovery of these … Read More
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
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