What if the Earth had a horseshoe orbit?
Although the probability is one part per million, there could still be many Earth-like planets with horseshoe orbits in the hundreds of billions of intergalactic...
Category : Space
The bizarre phenomenon on the Europa satellite may exist outside of Earth
New research suggests that the jets of water erupting on Jupiter’s Moon Europa may have come from its icy crust instead of its oceans. This...
The bizarre phenomenon on the Europa satellite may exist life outside Earth
The new study suggests that jets of water erupting on Jupiter’s Moon Europa may have originated from its icy crust instead of its oceans. This...
Brown dwarf discovered for the first time thanks to a radio telescope
Astronomers reverse the conventional process to find a brown dwarf, or super planet, with the LOFAR telescope in Hawaii. Scientists detected spectral signals from the...
Jupiter, Saturn, came very close for the first time since the Middle Ages
Starting at sunset on the evening of December 21, 2020, Jupiter and Saturn will appear close to each other in Earth’s night sky since the...
Mysterious purple aurora confuses NASA
The stunning image was taken by photographer Krista Trinder and was featured as NASA’s Astronomical Image of the Day, which once confused experts at the...
Meteorite nearly crashed into Earth from near record distance without anyone knowing
On Friday, November 13, a small asteroid passed Earth at an extremely close distance, but was never detected by any aerospace agency at that time....
The solar system was formed in 200,000 years
Scientists are analyzing billions of years old isotopes taken from asteroid fragments to determine when the solar system was formed. The solar system formed in...
Soil samples from asteroid Ruygu may reveal secrets of the universe
Astrophysicists around the world are eagerly awaiting soil samples from the asteroid Ruygu. It is believed to answer the most important questions about the universe...
SpaceX Corporation launches spacecraft to bring four astronauts to the ISS
Billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX technology successfully launched the Falcon 9 rocket, bringing the Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS)....