22 January 2016
Possible “Planet Nine” Discovery Announced
Potential “Planet Nine” discovery was announced on January 20, 2016, by Caltech scientists ... gravitational interaction with Jupiter or Saturn. “One of the most startling discoveries about other planetary systems has been that the most common type of...
03 November 2017
Dust belt hints at more planets around our nearest star
... Earth is from the Sun, has tantalising prospects. “The dust around Proxima is important because, following the discovery of the terrestrial planet Proxima b, it’s the first indication of the presence of an elaborate planetary system, and not just...
03 April 2018
Astronomers unexpectedly find the most distant star ever discovered
... distant objects in the Universe. For the newly lensed stellar discovery, now aptly named Lensed Star 1 (LS1), it was ...and 14 000 degrees Celsius making it blue in colour. “The discovery of LS1 allows us to gather new insights into the constituents of...
02 September 2019
Strange substance discovered by China's lunar rover on far side of the Moon
... in the Von Kármán Crater, the rover has made a strange discovery; a gel-like substance with an unusual colour. The strange substance...has been released by mission scientists regarding this latest discovery and they haven't shared an image of the weird...
08 April 2020
NASA funds vast radio telescope concept on far side of the Moon
...hoping to emulate. “We envisage that this concept would unlock the potential for ground-breaking scientific discoveries in radio astronomy,” concludes Bandyopadhyay. In addition to Bandyopadhyay’s concept, NASA also awarded a Phase III grant to Slava...
05 June 2020
Exciting exoplanet find around sun-like star
...the way we search for exoplanets which preferentially favours the discovery of big planets around small, cool stars. But ...Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) main mission is the discovery of Earth-sized planets around Sun-like stars. The MPS...
