In 2006, the Hubble Space Telescope captured a compelling cosmic scene: two galaxies in the constellation…
Astronomical Objects
“From the exoplanets’ point-of-view, we are the aliens,” said Lisa Kaltenegger, director of the Carl Sagan…
The “Mice” galaxies (NGC 4676A and NGC 4676B) are two heavily distorted spiral galaxies located in…
Despite its small size and distance from the Sun, Pluto has captured our imaginations and challenged…
The exoplanet HD 189733b occasionally has a pleasantly warm temperature of around 1,800 degrees Celsius (3,272…
Rogue planets do not have stable orbits and are likely ejected from their systems due to…
A Planet That Breaks Down Into Atoms Located 670 light-years from Earth, KELT-9b is the hottest…
In the past, we believed that our Solar System was fairly typical, categorizing all planets into…
Bernard’s Star is 99% Likely to Have a Planet After archival data pointed to the possible…
The primary tool for searching for extrasolar planetary systems was the Kepler orbital telescope, which has…
The Moon’s south pole shifted 5 degrees from its original position billions of years ago, changing…
Moving in space The reason why the Earth continues its endless rotation, like the endless rotation…
Gas giants such as Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in the solar system are composed primarily…
This composite image shows the Pillars of Creation taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in 2014…
Eris is the most distant dwarf planet discovered to date, located beyond the orbit of Neptune.…
The new moon is the phase of the moon at which its position on the celestial…
Scientists have spotted 12 more moons around Jupiter, adding to an already huge number that only…
According to NASA, one of the driest regions on Earth is the Atacama Desert in Chile,…
The boring Kuiper Initiative In 1955, astronomer Gerard Kuiper approached his colleagues with the idea of…
Clavius Crater water Clavius is one of the largest and oldest craters on the Moon. Located…
The Moon and Sun appear to be the same size when viewed from Earth because, although…
Jupiter, which is far from the Sun, would logically be cold, but its upper atmosphere is…
“Sweeper” of the Solar System Jupiter is the most massive planet in the solar system and…
Five asteroids, one the size of a house and two the size of an airplane, will…
What do we observe when approaching Jupiter? After traveling 248 million miles (400 million kilometers), you…
The theory goes that Jupiter pushes dangerous comets and asteroids out of their deadly orbits so…
A few salty water droplets that hit the rack of NASA’s Phoenix lander as it landed…
The average distance to the Moon is 384,403 km. Why “average”? Because the Moon revolves around…
The first photographs of the surface of Venus were taken by the Soviet Venera-9 spacecraft. “Venera-9”…
The planet’s crust is solid because it is composed of rocks and minerals that have solidified…