Space

Astronomers have found an exoplanet with a leaky atmosphere. HAT-P-32b, a gas giant located 923 light-years away is losing its atmosphere at a fast pace, and the scientists have discovered the extent of this loss. The exoplanet is 1.8 times the radius of Jupiter and is spitting out gas to form two tails, which are

Researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have discovered six additional runaway stars in the Milky Way, including two record-breaking hypervelocity stars, which travel faster than any other runaway star detected in the galaxy. Four of these newly found objects are hypervelocity stars that travel at speeds exceeding the escape velocity of the Milky Way.

Claims that the US government has secretly retrieved crashed alien spacecraft and their non-human occupants have been around for a long time. These claims are deeply entrenched in post-war American UFO lore and conspiracy theory, inspiring the most well-known narrative in ufology: the “Roswell incident.” However, journalists Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal have injected fresh

Stars are celestial bodies that have fascinated humans for centuries. They appear as cut jewels, glittering coldly against the velvet darkness of the night sky. However, as stars cool, some of them gradually harden and crystallize. In recent years, astronomers have discovered a white dwarf composed primarily of carbon and metallic oxygen just 104 light-years

Spaceflight can have a significant impact on the human body, and researchers are still trying to understand the details. In a recent study, scientists explored the relationship between the length of space missions and the time between them and the fluid in the human brain. The cerebrospinal fluid, stored in the brain in four pockets

The Parker Solar Probe, a solar probe that made a dangerous plunge into the Sun’s corona, has now traced the wind that blows from the Sun’s surface back to its source. The probe made a record-breaking approach of 8.5 million kilometers (5.3 million miles) to the Sun in November 2021, which allowed the detection of

Photosynthesis, a process that enables plants and other organisms to convert sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into oxygen and energy in the form of sugar, is an integral part of Earth’s functioning. It is a process that is 2.3 billion years old and is responsible for the existence of life on our planet. However, as

Solar power is the third largest source of renewable energy and is expected to grow exponentially in the coming decades, with renewables accounting for 90 percent of the energy market by mid-century. However, technical challenges need to be overcome for this transition to occur, with intermittency being the main limiting factor for solar power. To

The James Webb Space Telescope has made a remarkable discovery in a galaxy situated in the early Universe less than 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. Astronomers have been able to detect complex molecules in the galaxy known as SPT0418-47, from light that traveled for over 12 billion years. The molecules, known as polycyclic

A new population of filaments has been discovered in the space surrounding the heart of the Milky Way. These magnetized strands are aligned along the galactic plane and point towards the galactic center. According to astrophysicist Farhad Yusef-Zadeh of Northwestern University, these filaments are likely the remnants of an outflow from the supermassive black hole

Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking proposed a theory that black holes gradually lose mass over time through a strange form of radiation, as the event horizon disrupts surrounding quantum fields. This radiation, known as Hawking radiation, is thought to occur due to the complex mix of fluctuations within the quantum fields being interfered with by the event