The most recent discoveries in our universe.
500 million miles from the Sun lies Ganymede moon, slightly larger than the planet Mercury, orbiting Jupiter and may contain more water than all of Earth’s oceans.
A strong Earth-directed X-flare, the biggest of the year, erupted from a large active region on the sun, causes radio blackouts on Earth
Meet our new neighbours: Astronomers discovered at least nine ultra-faint satellites in the vicinity of the Magellanic Clouds. New dwarf galaxies orbiting around the Milky Way.
New isotopic measurements by researchers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, reveal that an ocean once covered approximately twenty percent of the Martian surface. Watch the video…
Astronomers puzzled by ‘bright spots’ on surface of dwarf planet Ceres, as NASA’s Dawn spacecraft gets closer to being captured into orbit around the object.
A gigantic black hole at the heart of the brightest quasar in the early universe discovered, 12 billion times more massive than our sun.
The magnificent central disk of our Milky Way Galaxy arches over the aged Toadstool hoodoos rock formations in northern Arizona, USA. Image credit David Lane & R.
In a new study, astronomers determined PDS 456, an extremely bright black hole known as a quasar more than 2 billion light-years away, sustains winds that carry
How big is our Sun? How big can stars get? Above: red supergiant UY Scuti size comparison to the sun.
Some regions of the solar chromosphere, in a specific color of red light emitted by hydrogen, may resemble a rose.