Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite will be launched on 16th April on SpaceX Falcon 9. It will discover exoplanets ranging from gas giants to size of Earth. During the 2 year mission, the satellite will monitor 200,000 stars less than 300 light...
Space business is booming. Recently, a startup founded in 2013, Oxford Space Systems, announced that they are developing a giant, expandable antenna and innovative structures that meet the challenges of the new space age. Oxford Space Systems rely...
The universe we know today is a result of centuries of studies and observations conducted by astronomers all over the world. Although the earliest model of the universe was established by the ancient Indian and Greek philosophers, more accurate...
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence was only made possible after the discovery of radio waves. Though the radio waves was mathematically predicted initially by Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell in 1867, while observing the wavelike...
There are tons of fictional spaceships that are so alluring that space lovers wish they can live in any one of those ships. Today, they are an integral part of sci-fi stories, and most of them have their own charm and personality. Just like Rome...
The massive internet satellite constellation of SpaceX is now one step closer to the reality. SpaceX has successfully launched its first broadband internet test satellites (in second attempt). While the primary mission of the launch was to carry...
Several researches are going on to find evidences of a hypothetical particle called dark photon. So far, physicists have come up with no proof. However, upcoming experiments will be more precise and sensitive to dark photon decay. You might be...
Researchers introduced a new model, in which dark matter consists of charged particles. This would allow dark matter to radiate energy and create compact objects like dark galaxies or dark stars. The universe is full of things that we still...
Scientists develop a model that tries to solve the half-century-old enigma of origin of ultra-high particles in the universe. The model explains the origin of extreme-energy cosmic rays, high-energy gamma rays and high-energy neutrinos, and how...
Astrophysicists discover a model that explains the mysterious behavior of eccentric stellar orbits surrounding suppressive black holes. A supermassive black hole swallows one star every year in a post-galactic merger period. This is 10,000 times...
Researchers have discovered multitudes of planets 3.8 billion light years away. There are a few trillion planets in this far away elliptical galaxy. They appear to be ‘rouge’ planets not orbiting any star, but roaming free around...
Speed of dark matter can be calculated by measuring the speed of oldest stars in the Galaxy. Astrophysicists have used numerical simulations of Milky Way’s formation to accurately measure the local speed distribution of dark matter particles...