Are you a space nerd? Do you dream of someday stepping foot on another planet? If so, then you may be interested in hearing about a new effort being led by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. The goal ...
Scientists may have found a new Milky Way arm called “Cattail.” However, experts need to do further research in order to be sure this giant filament of gas and dust is part of our galaxy. Located at the outer edge ...
Open clusters are a loose grouping of stars formed from the same giant molecular cloud. All the stars inside an open cluster are around the same age, while one group ranges from a few tens to a few thousand stars. ...
Mars helicopter Ingenuity has successfully launched on Monday. NASA’s small chopper is carrying the Perseverance rover to the Red Planet. For the 12th time, the little helicopter has made it. According to NASA’s plan, Ingenuity is going to explore a ...
The Russian space module Nauka docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday. After a few technical issues, the giant spaceship arrived at the orbiting laboratory; however, things got slightly out of hand. Suddenly after three hours, Nauka started ...
Back in the day, Einstein came up with quite the theory: light should bend around a black hole and be reflected right back at the viewer from behind the black hole. It might sound ambitious considering it’s only a theory, ...
Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new stunning photo of a distant galaxy. However, the latest image is due to an astronomical event: gravitational lensing. Framed by the tell-tale arcs and with the boost of this extraordinary phenomenon, experts are ...
As the Universe unfolds right before our eyes, it allows us to explore more space possibilities and probe some of the most peculiar cosmic features. And the recent event is no exception. New research offers a new perspective of the ...
Departure from the International Space Station (ISS) leaves the space team amazed by the astonishing aurora lights. Although auroras frequently occur in space, a large expulsion of material from the Sun made this one memorable. The stunning polar lights reached the Earth displaying ...
Scientists found a new but relatively old galaxy shipyard, identical to the one our star system formed in. The G237 accumulation of galaxies currently sustains over 60 galaxies. Galaxy clusters are the biggest structures in the cosmos. Therefore the latest ...