space Sunspot Activity Is Exceeding All Predictions The increase in the number of sunspots will also directly affect the number and power of flares, which can cause communications blackouts, power grid fluctuations and spectacular auroras.
space Astronomers Discover Two Saturn-Mass Exoplanets The discovery was made using the radial-velocity method within the CARMENES survey. The essence of the method is to find the characteristic "wobbles" of stars caused by the gravity of their invisible companions.
space Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Captures Dry Ice on Mars Dry ice is formed by the freezing of carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere. In midwinter, this frost reaches from the poles down to the middle latitudes, up to 50° latitude.
space Hubble Took a Picture of a Forming Jupiter-Like Protoplanet The newborn planet orbits the protostar AB Aurigae. The planet is a gas giant whose mass is nine times that of Jupiter. The exoplanet orbits at a distance of 8.6 billion miles from its parent star.
space Hubble Space Telescope Captures Images of a Spiral Galaxy It is believed that about a half of spiral galaxies (including our Milky Way) have a similar structure. The spiral arms of NGC 5921 stretch out of the bar, studded densely with clusters of young stars.
space Temperatures on Neptune Are Fluctuating Unexpectedly Astronomers have been monitoring the temperature of Neptune for 17 years and found that it suddenly dropped and then rose sharply near the south pole. Scientists do not yet know the reason for that.
space SpaceX Sends the First All-Private Mission to the ISS SpaceX is carrying out the mission with Axiom Space, a commercial aerospace company that plans to build and operate the first commercial ISS modules and the first international commercial space station.
space Astronomers Discover a New Type of Nebula An international team of astronomers has discovered a new type of nebula around binary stars, a system of two gravitationally bound stars orbiting in closed orbits around a common center.
space Astronomers Discover the Most Distant Galaxy Ever Found HD1 is 100 million light-years farther from Earth than the previous record-breaking galaxy GN-z11. According to preliminary calculations, HD1 produces about a hundred stars each year, which is ten times more than expected from a galaxy of this type.
space Astronomers Reveal an Image of Mysterious Odd Radio Circles Astronomers hope that the unique image will help them understand the nature of odd radio circles and prove one of their origin's theories.
space Scientists Suggest Sending Astronauts to Mars Using Lasers Scientists from McGill University in Canada have invented the concept of the laser catapult, which will help astronauts get to Mars in just 45 days. However, scientists do not yet know how to slow the spacecraft down once it arrives at its destination.
space NASA Confirms the Existence of Over 5,000 Exoplanets More specifically, the agency's exoplanet archive now documents 5,005 exoplanets, each with its own unique characteristics. The latest batch of exoplanets was discovered on March 21.
space Scientists Tracked Down a Fallen Meteorite Using Drones and Machine Learning The resulting images were analyzed by a machine-learning algorithm that can detect unusual objects lying on the ground. It identified the supposed location where the fragments of the meteorite fell. At that spot, scientists found a 70-gram meteorite.
space Astronomers Discover the Largest Known Galaxy in the Universe This cluster of stars that orbit a supermassive black hole is located three billion light-years from Earth and stretches at least 16.3 million light-years through space.
space Astronomers Discover a Mysterious Spinning Object in the Milky Way The scientists established that the object is about four thousand light years from Earth. So far, astronomers can only say that it is incredibly bright and has an extremely strong magnetic field.
space SEE To Launch a Space-Based Film Studio by 2024 Orbital station manufacturer Axiom Space will handle the construction. SEE-1 will then be fitted to the Axiom Station, a commercial space station being built by Axiom Space that would attach to the current ISS before orbiting on its own.
space The Universe Could Contain 40 Billion Billions of Black Holes Scientists at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste (SISSA) have found that there are 40 billion billions (i.e., 4 followed by 19 zeros) stellar-mass black holes in the universe.
space China Has Built an Artificial Moon to Simulate Low-Gravity Conditions Chinese scientists have built an artificial Moon research facility that simulates low-gravity conditions. This lunar simulator is essentially a vacuum chamber of 60 centimeters in diameter.
space Scientists Detect Up to 170 New Rogue Planets Wandering our Galaxy If a planet is young and hot, its own residual heat helps find it. That's how scientists found the new rogue planets this time after analyzing 80,000 images taken over the past 20 years of astronomical observations.
space Scientists Propose to Make Pluto a Planet Again If the approach to defining planets is reconsidered, the status of a planet would be given not only to Pluto, but also to the Moon, dwarf planets, asteroids, as well as geologically active satellites of giant planets, such as Titan.
space Astronomers Discover the Farthest Star From Earth The star is so far away that its light took 12.9 billion years to reach Earth, and it is now seen as it was when the universe was about 900 million years old, a mere 7% of its current age.
space SpaceX Raises Prices Amid Rising Commodity Markets For example, the base monthly cost of Starlink services will increase by 11 percent to $110 from $99 a month as of May 21. The cost of Starlink equipment will increase 10 percent to $549.
space Virgin Galactic Is Selling Tickets to Space for $450,000 During the 90-minute journey, space tourists will enjoy several minutes of out-of-seat weightlessness and breath-taking views of Earth from the 17 windows of the spaceship.
space NASA to Retire the ISS by Crashing It Into the Ocean by Late 2030 According to NASA's plan, in January 2031, the ISS will perform a series of maneuvers to descend slowly. The station will then enter the Earth's atmosphere, and its fragments should be crashed into the Pacific Ocean.
space Scientists Created the Biggest Map of the Universe The map was created using DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument), which helped astrophysicists collect images of the universe over the course of seven months and combine them with each other.
