Milky Way map reveals 1.5 billion cosmic jewels
Over a span of more than 13 years and accumulating over 500 terabytes of data, the most detailed infrared map of our galaxy has now been completed. This project, the largest ever undertaken…
Mars’ missing atmosphere could be hiding in plain sight
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Mars wasn’t always the cold desert we see today. There’s increasing evidence that water once flowed on the Red Planet’s surface, billions of years ago. And if there was water,…
Striped rock found on Mars
The detection by the Perseverance rover of a previously unseen black and white striped rock on Mars came as a surprise to NASA scientists. It raises the question of whether this could be…
Study suggests black holes may be frozen stars
A recently published study posits that the black holes postulated by Einstein’s general theory of relativity may not be as featureless and structureless as previously thought. Alternatively, these cosmic entities may be constituted…
Hubble finds more black holes in the early universe
The Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a larger number of black holes in the early universe than scientists had predicted, offering new perspectives on the formation of supermassive black holes. These giants, located…
Early dark energy could resolve cosmology’s two biggest puzzles
Jennifer Chu | MIT News A new study by MIT physicists proposes that a mysterious force known as early dark energy could solve two of the biggest puzzles in cosmology and fill in some major…
The Milky Way seems to be touching the Andromeda galaxy
Recent research suggests that the boundaries of the Milky Way may be much broader than previously thought, to the point of already being in contact with its nearest galactic neighbor, Andromeda. This discovery,…
Alien planets may be trapped in eternal days or nights.
Maureen Cohen, The Open University Do aliens sleep? You may take sleep for granted, but research suggests many planets that could evolve life don’t have a day and night cycle. It’s hard to…
Giant impact moved the largest moon in the solar system
New research suggests that Ganymede, the largest moon of Jupiter and the solar system, suffered a devastating impact billions of years ago, which may have altered its internal structure and axis of rotation….
New strategy for producing water on the Moon
The presence of water on the lunar surface is essential for human survival and has therefore attracted great interest from the scientific community. A significant advance in this field has come from the…