Closest comet in decades shares sky with lunar eclipse this weekend
A lunar eclipse starts everything off Friday night, as the moon passes into Earth’s penumbra, or outer shadow. The moon won’t be blacked out like in a full eclipse; only part of the moon...
AI in Space
Among the extraterrestrial applications for which AI will be used is producing better maps of the moon’s surface. Inadvertently steering a rover into one of the craters is far worse than...
Giant Planet Outside The Solar System Shows Stratospheric Evidence
In a study of the NASA based Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California, co author Mark Marley said that they had discovered atmospheric similarities among the planets in the solar system....
Astronomers Solve Mystery Of Weird Signal Coming From Silent Solar System
Scientists from the Arecibo Observatory have finally found what they believe is the cause of a mysterious radio signal that was picked up during one of their routine observations last month. The...
Have astronomers found the first exomoon beyond our solar system?
New Delhi: While space agencies around the world are busy studying the moon and planning various lunar missions and manned probes, another moon beyond our solar system may have just given away its...
TRAPPIST-1 is older than our Solar System
If we want to know more about whether life could survive on a planet outside our Solar System, it’s important to know the age of its star. Young stars have frequent releases of high-energy radiation...
System of super-Earths discovered around a nearby star
If you look up at Earth’s night sky and find the constellation Cetus — it looks something like a sea monster — you might also notice a rather average looking star called Tau Ceti. It’s slightly...
Physics student looks to the stars for a career in Aboriginal astronomy
Tens of thousands of years ago, Indigenous Australians looked towards the sky at night to navigate their environment by reading the different constellations. These days — despite the light pollution...
