The most recent discoveries in our universe.
Jupiter as you’ve never seen it before
Giant planet Jupiter as you’ve never seen it before in this work of art.
Julius Caesar and Leap Days
In 46 BC Julius Caesar reformed the calendar system, based on advice by astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria. The Julian calendar included one leap day every four years
The biggest explosion in the history of the Universe detected
Scientists studying a distant galaxy cluster have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the Universe since the Big Bang.
Discovery of a Doomed Planet
This hot jupiter exoplanet is doomed. Hot jupiters are giant planets like Jupiter that orbit much closer to their parent stars than Mercury does to our Sun.
Jupiter’s enigmatic Magnetic Field
NASA’s robotic Juno spacecraft has found that Jupiter’s magnetic field is surprisingly complex, so that the Jovian world does not have single magnetic poles like our Earth.
The Red Planet is alive with a lot of Quakes
A new understanding of Mars is beginning to emerge, thanks to the first year of NASA’s InSight lander mission.
Asteroids Size Comparison
In this video, the sizes of some asteroids compared to New York City.
The Pale Blue Dot
A recent update to this historic portrait on Valentine’s Day in 1990 by the Voyager 1 spacecraft, showing Earth as a tiny speck surrounded by the vastness
Beautiful outcome of Stellar Fight
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), have spotted a peculiar gas cloud that resulted from a confrontation between two stars.
What if Earth was as Big as the Sun?
What if the Earth suddenly expanded to the size of the Sun, but water isn’t expanding proportionately?