NASA has cleared its Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope for launch after teams completed a flight readiness review on Wednesday. The telescope is scheduled to lift off on August 30 at 7:26
Asteroid Apophis passes within 31,000km of Earth on April 13, 2029—closer than geostationary satellites. Visible to naked eye from Europe, Africa, Asia. Multiple spacecraft
For the first time, a peculiar area around black holes known as the “plunging region” has been observed. Albert Einstein had predicted that this area, instead of circling a black hole, would
NASA has confirmed 5,573 planets outside the solar system distributed across 4,151 external systems. Of all the rocky bodies, only one officially has an atmosphere, although it is far from being considered
On April 23rd, four solar flares erupted almost simultaneously on the sun’s surface, a phenomenon never seen before, and they may trigger a solar storm in the coming days that could affect
A total eclipse has not been seen in New York for 99 years. New York Governor Kathy Hochul said the state has been preparing for the solar eclipse event for 17 months.
March 28, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, as well as many other observatories have together delivered an image of a 800 year old Supernova. It’s a composite image of the supernova remnant SNR
A swath of North America will witness a total solar eclipse on April 8th, a cosmic phenomenon that will momentarily plunge more than 30 million people into darkness and, in addition to
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has identified water vapor in the atmosphere of exoplanet GJ 9827d, a noteworthy finding in the field of exoplanetary science. The exoplanet, which is located 97 light-years away
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team led by the University of Cambridge has presented a remarkable astronomical discovery. The discovery, which opens the next chapter in the field
On October 9, 2022, Earth was struck by an extraordinarily bright and enduring gamma-ray burst (GRB), named GRB 221009A. Detected by high-energy satellites including ESA’s Integral, this phenomenon was sourced from a
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a striking image of Sagittarius C (Sgr C), revealing the dense heart of the Milky Way with unparalleled clarity. This area, located approximately 300 light-years