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Exoplanet Fomalhaut b’s Disappearance From Hubble Space Telescope’s Sight Was Explained

Back in 2004 and 2006, the Hubble Space Telescope made quite the discovery. It succeeded in capturing a gaseous giant exoplanet dubbed Fomalhaut b orbiting a star. Such a finding is rare, as exoplanets are usually too faint and small…

April 21, 2020 · by Anna Daniels · 0

Computer Simulations Revealed That Milky Way Catapults Stars in the Outer Halo

The researchers have proven that the clusters of supernovas are responsible for the creation of scattered stars, which represent suns that orbit in an unconventional way in the outer stellar halos of the Milky Way galaxy. Therefore, this discovery is…

April 21, 2020 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

WFIRST Will Employ Advanced Techniques To Track Down Exoplanets

Many of the exoplanets that are currently known have been discovered with the use of the transit method. This method involves the observation of the light produced by a star over a specific timeframe. If a planet passes in front…

April 21, 2020 · by Anna Daniels · 0

NASA Plans To Make Oxygen On The Moon From Gold

NASA’s recent plans involve a process of turning carbon dioxide into oxygen using gold. The mission will be done by using the MOXIE (the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment). The tool is a golden box with which NASA engineers…

April 20, 2020 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

Megadrought To Hit North America, New Research Showed

We already know that climate change leads to lots of problems for planet Earth – global and ocean warming, as well as extreme weather, among others. According to a new study published in Science, megadrought is heading towards North America.…

April 20, 2020 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

Carbon Nanostructure Stronger Than Diamonds Was Invented

Scientists are claiming that they found how to structure the carbon utilizing a nanoscale. This determines a carbon nanostructure that’s superior to diamonds as far as the strength and density are concerned. However, even the tiny carbon lattice has already…

April 20, 2020 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

Gravitational Waves Emitted By A Powerful Collision Between Two Black Holes

A recent discovery in the field of gravitational waves is stating that a new recording of vibrations coming from a cosmic collision was recently registered. What is even more interesting is that the scientists declared that the sound bore a…

April 19, 2020 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

Science News: ISS Astronauts Ended Their Mission, Scientists Found A Weird Star, And Chernobyl Wildfires Engulfed Ukraine

The US-Russian ISS astronauts have returned to Earth after 200 days in the space, as TribuneIndia reported. The mission has successfully ended on the 17th of April, after the astronauts landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan, being warmly welcomed with…

April 19, 2020 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

White And Whale Sharks Have To Be Protected At Any Cost, Scientists Warned

Excellent white and whale sharks are part of the endangered species, as researchers are warning. The new study is showing that the sharks are prone to experience several losses in their ecological roles in the community. The study has identified…

April 19, 2020 · by Anna Daniels · 0

Shocking Image Taken By NASA Shows “Earth-Like” Exoplanet That Might Host Water

A team of NASA scientists used reanalyzed data provided by the Kepler space telescope and discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet revolving around its star’s habitable zone. From NASA’s standpoint, a habitable zone means a zone that can support liquid water and,…

April 18, 2020 · by Asheley Rice · 0

NASA Tracks Down a New Planet that Shares Several Similarities with Earth

The Kepler Space Telescope may have been retired, but a significant amount of data has remained unprocessed and continues to reveal surprising facts as researchers explore it. NASA has announced that a new exoplanet, which seems to be quite similar…

April 18, 2020 · by Asheley Rice · 0

Good old manual search found the most Earth-like planet in Kepler’s old data

As intelligent as Artificial Intelligence might be, there are things that only humans can do. A computer algorithm might do better measurements than humans, but it can’t interpret beyond the limit of its algorithm. As humans, we have the power…

April 18, 2020 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

Einstein Was Right! This Black Hole Is Solid Proof!

The behavior of a star that ventured close to the supermassive black hole of our galaxy has shown that Albert Einstein’s theory about gravity is correct. The star was labeled “S2”, and after almost three decades of observation, its orbit…

April 17, 2020 · by Asheley Rice · 0

Solar Winds of 1.4 Million Miles Per Hour Hit Earth

Reports about solar winds currently battering our planet were released. The winds blasted from the Sun hit Earth at an astronomical 1.4 million miles per hour, meaning 405 kilometers/second. The stream of particles has reached their 150 million kilometers trip…

April 17, 2020 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

OSIRIS-Rex Is Getting Ready To Sample Asteroid Bennu

The OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft is currently during its mission in the outer space. On the 9th of April, the shuttle managed to accomplish one of the essential steps in its mission. The mission’s managers approved a rehearsal for the sample collecting…

April 17, 2020 · by Asheley Rice · 0