Do You Know What a Lenticular Galaxy Is? NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a stunning image of the lenticular galaxy NGC 3489. Lenticular galaxies, which occupy a unique middle ground between spiral and elliptical galaxies, possess a central bulge … Read More
“NASA Unveils Pristine Moon Rock Samples from Apollo 17 for Study Ahead of Artemis Missions” NASA recently opened a perfectly preserved rock and soil sample from the Moon, collected during the Apollo 17 mission. This is the first time in … Read More
Earth’s magnetic field protects life on our blue planet — and astronomers just found evidence of a magnetic field on a rocky exoplanet 12 light-years away. In a recent study published in the journal Nature Astronomy, scientists reported detecting evidence … Read More
Facial pareidolia refers to the human tendency or illusion of seeing facial structures in everyday objects, such as seeing the “man in the Moon” or Jesus’ face on a piece of toast. However, there is a newly discovered crater on … Read More
An asteroid the size of a truck is set to pass close to Earth on Thursday, one of the closest encounters ever recorded, according to NASA. The asteroid, named 2023 BU and recently discovered by an amateur astronomer, is scheduled … Read More
Authors It is no exaggeration to say the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) represents a new era for modern astronomy. Launched on December 25 last year and fully operational since July, the telescope offers glimpses of the universe that were inaccessible … Read More