Astronomers have found a star cluster that shouldn’t exist. It lies 94,000 light-years away from Earth and is only 120 million years old. Because of Magellanic Clouds, these stars managed to form in very unsuitable surroundings. Like...
Starlink becomes the world’s biggest commercial satellite network. So far, SpaceX has deployed more than 180 satellites in Low Earth Orbit. Its commercial operation in the Northern U.S. and Canada will begin in 2020. The company aims to...
An exoplanet named TOI 1338 b orbits a pair of stars every 95 days. This circumbinary planet is almost 7 times bigger than Earth and 1,300 light-years away. In 2018, NASA launched a space telescope named Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite...
Astronomers identify a new class of planet with incredibly low density. They studied three planets orbiting a Sun-like star Kepler 51. These puffy have densities lower than 0.1 gram/cm3. Planets are made out of numerous different things. Venus...
Uranus was the first ever planet to be discovered with the help of a telescope. But do you know, before Sir William Herschel, it was not recognized as a planet? When ancient astronomers first observed Uranus, they mistook it for a star. The earliest...
Black holes are one of the most fascinating objects found in the Universe. They are celestial bodies of extremely intense gravity from which nothing can escape – not a planet, not a moon, and not even light. Anything that crosses the event...
While most space-related researches are conducted by astronomers with ground-based telescopes, the physical exploration is carried out by both human spaceflight and unmanned robotic space probes. The main purpose of space exploration is advancing...
Borisov is the first identified comet to visit our solar system (from another star). It is the second known interstellar object to pass through the solar system. The comet’s nucleus (a cluster of dust and ices) is approximately 975 meters...
MAMBO-9 is the most distant galaxy that has ever been detected without using a gravitational lens. It was observed directly via the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. The galaxy was formed just 970 million years after the Big Bang...
A new study suggests that the Dark Ages completely ended around 12 billion years ago. This is when the first generation of stars and galaxies lit up the universe. It is estimated that our universe is 13.8 billion years old, with an uncertainty of...