Scientists have discovered a key ingredient for life in Saturn’s small moon named Enceladus. The team of researchers led by Dr. Christopher Glein, discovered phosphorus in the form of phosphate in water erupting from the surface of the moon. The researchers said the phosphate discovered is hundred times higher than the quantity found in earth’s oceans.
The ring structures around the Saturn planet has amazed astronomers for decades as the planet has the most extensive ring system in the entire solar system. But according to a new study, Saturn rings are disappearing and may not be there for future sky gazers. The data collected by NASA’s Cassini mission from 2004 to 2017 has revealed that the beautiful rings are eroding but the reason is yet to be known.
After a thorough examination of asteroids that come close to earth, astronomers have concluded that the likelihood of Earth being impacted by large asteroids is highly unlikely within the next 1,000 years. Scientists didn’t rule out the probability of smaller asteroids hitting the earth, but a larger one is highly unlikely, they said.
Astronomers have detected the largest space explosion at a distance of around 8 billion lightyears away. The intensity of the blast surpasses that of any documented space explosion, shining over 10 times brighter. Scientists said that the explosion was unlike typical supernovae, which remain visible for merely a few months.
Scientists have been able to detect mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs) from space which can prove the previous conspiracies of alien’s contacting the earth. Such milliseconds of strong bursts produce more energy than the sun does in days, scientists believe.
For the very first time, scientists have become able to capture a spectacular image of a dying star that is in the process of eating a planet. Astronomers observed a giant planet, the size of a Jupiter, being swallowed by its star.
Astronomers are now using AI to discover new planets outside our solar system. Scientists from University of Georgia have developed a new system understand and discover planets that lie outside our solar system. The machine learning technique can accurately catch exoplanets by studying gas formed around the newly created stars.
For the very first time, the James Webb Telescope has revealed an astonishing image of Uranus. This is the first ever image that shows such details of the ring system that surrounds the ice giant. The image clearly shows 11 out of 13 bright rings of the seventh planet of our solar system, with some of its moons shining around it.
A rare green comet that has been moving around in our solar system will pass by our earth tonight. The green comet will pass after 50,000 years, according to NASA. Tonight, it’ll make its closest approach to our planet and will be visible to the general public.
We, as the inhabitants of a solar system of our own, have never given a thought if there’s any other plenary system beyond ours. A new mysterious planetary, that is 90 light-years away, has just been discovered by scientists. But this solar system is unlike ours. The research was published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a leading astronomy journal.
The pictures of the icy moon of Jupiter, Europa, were captured by NASA’s probe, Juno, during a flyby showing how stunning the moon is and also revealing that the moon could possibly harbor extraterrestrial life.
A mission to recover pieces of a meteor that struck Earth eight years ago is being planned by Professor Abraham Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He believed the meteor may be a technical device made by aliens.
