New from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope successfully deployed a critical antenna on Sunday (December 26), just one day after its Christmas launch into space.…
Astronomers capture a massive volcanic eruption from a black hole near Earth that extends 16 times the full moon in the sky
Centaurus A is a giant elliptical galaxy active 12 million light years away. At its core is a black hole with a mass of 55…
The 10 wildest things we learned about black holes in 2021
Faster rotating black holeEven the best-studied black holes still provide surprises. In February, physicists revised their estimates of the properties of the cosmic monster at…
Alien lifeforms ‘unlike anything we’ve seen’ could be hiding in the clouds of Venus, scientists suggest
Researchers believe that there could be potential lifeforms producing ammonia in the clouds of Venus that are “very unlike anything we’ve seen”. The colourless gas, a compound…
How long is a day on Venus?
The surface of Venus, taken by Russia’s Venera 13 spacecraft. It lasted 127 minutes before succumbing to the Planet’s extremely harsh atmosphere. After 15 years…
A dinosaur embryo has been found inside a fossilized egg.
Reconstruction of a close-to-hatching oviraptorosaur egg.LIDA XING/ISCIENCE The embryo has been found inside a fossilized dinosaur egg which sheds light on the link between the…
Rea. Saturn Moon
Rhea, discovered on December 23, 1672 by Giovanni Cassini, is the second largest moon of Saturn, but at a distance of 527,000 kilometers from Saturn…
Astronomers discover the most distant quasar ever found
An international team of astronomers has discovered the most distant quasar to date. The quasar is known as J0313-1806 and is so far away that…
Boötes Void: What is This Patch of Space With Few Stars?
Gas cloud Barnard 68 gives us an idea of what a space void might look like if we could peer through the stars at one.…
Why are the snowflakes symmetrical and hexagonal?
There are more than eighty different varieties of snow, but all of them are made up of perfectly symmetrical and hexagonal flakes and, in addition,…