Astronomy

Researchers Observed a Record-setting Flare from Sun’s nearest neighbor star Proxima Centauri

Researchers Observed a Record-setting Flare from Sun’s nearest neighbor star Proxima Centauri

The largest flare ever recorded from the sun’s nearest neighbor, the star Proxima Centauri, has been discovered by scientists. The study, published in The Astrophysical…
Geology of Early Planet Formation helps Astronomers identify Habitable Planets

Geology of Early Planet Formation helps Astronomers identify Habitable Planets

Astronomers have confirmed over 4,000 exoplanets (planets orbiting stars other than the sun) and counting, but only a fraction of them have the potential to…
Scientists Reveal how Gamma-rays are produced in Colossal Stellar Explosions

Scientists Reveal how Gamma-rays are produced in Colossal Stellar Explosions

Scientists have obtained the clearest picture yet of the universe’s brightest explosions: The most energetic radiation and the longest gamma-ray afterglow of a so-called gamma-ray…
Peculiar Molecule Detected in cloud Near Galactic Center could be Precursor to Life

Peculiar Molecule Detected in cloud Near Galactic Center could be Precursor to Life

Astronomers have discovered a pre-organic molecule in a molecular cloud in space, a discovery that could be important to our understanding of how life on…
NASA’s Mars Helicopter Survived a Wild Lurching Ride after “In-Flight Anomaly”

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Survived a Wild Lurching Ride after “In-Flight Anomaly”

NASA’s curiosity has skyrocketed, but this is not the sixth time the helicopter has experienced the smoothness of a previous flight on Tuesday. The muscle…
Instantly Thinking UFOs are Aliens is “The Height of Foolishness”, Says Retired Astronaut

Instantly Thinking UFOs are Aliens is “The Height of Foolishness”, Says Retired Astronaut

A former Canadian astronaut and proud mustache wearer, Chris Hadfield recently considered the newly expressed interest in watching the “anonymous plane incident” in a CBC…
Jupiter’s Icy Moon Europa may be Hot Enough to have Seafloor Volcanoes

Jupiter’s Icy Moon Europa may be Hot Enough to have Seafloor Volcanoes

Jupiter’s moon Europa is thought to have more water under its icy crust than all the oceans on our planet’s surface. This liquid ocean is of…
Researchers identified Plutonium that came from Interstellar found in Pacific Ocean

Researchers identified Plutonium that came from Interstellar found in Pacific Ocean

Traces of rare forms of iron and plutonium have been discovered at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, following a cataclysm in outer space that…
Physicists Say the Early Universe was a huge Liquid Ocean

Physicists Say the Early Universe was a huge Liquid Ocean

In an attempt to recreate the first matter created by the creation of the universe, physicists used the world’s largest atom accelerator, the Large Hadron…
Sixty Years after Kennedy’s “Man on the Moon” Speech, why haven’t we been back yet?

Sixty Years after Kennedy’s “Man on the Moon” Speech, why haven’t we been back yet?

Sixty years ago today, on May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy appeared before Congress and argued that “before this decade is over, we must…
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