This latest image of Jupiter, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope on 25 August 2020, was captured when the planet was 653 million kilometres
Category: Astronomy
Can diamond planets exist?
As missions like NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, TESS and Kepler continue to provide insights into the properties of exoplanets (planets around other stars), scientists are
Hubble opens another crack in dark matter theories
Astronomers have discovered that there may be a missing ingredient in our cosmic recipe of how dark matter behaves. They have uncovered a discrepancy between
Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by ‘Planet Nine’
The strange orbits of some objects in the farthest reaches of our solar system, hypothesised by some astronomers to be shaped by an unknown ninth
Hubble has captured the most detailed image yet of a close neighbour of the Milky Way
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the most detailed image yet of a close neighbour of the Milky Way — the Triangulum Galaxy, a
An unknown group of planets found hiding in the dust
“Super-Earths” and Neptune-sized planets could be forming around young stars in much greater numbers than scientists thought, new research by an international team of astronomers
Traveling to the sun: Why won’t Parker Solar Probe melt?
This summer, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will launch to travel closer to the Sun, deeper into the solar atmosphere, than any mission before it. If
VLT makes most precise test of Einstein’s general relativity outside Milky Way
Using the MUSE instrument on ESO’s VLT , a team led by Thomas Collett from the University of Portsmouth in the UK first calculated the
A laser from a space ant
An international team of astronomers have discovered an unusual laser emission that suggests the presence of a double star system hidden at the heart of
May the forest be with you: GEDI moves toward launch to space station
A first-of-its-kind laser instrument designed to map the world’s forests in 3-D is moving toward an earlier launch to the International Space Station than previously