Juno Mission Sheds Light on Jupiter’s Storms and Volcanic Activity on Io
NASA’s Juno mission has discovered a world of cyclones at Jupiter’s north Jovian pole, a region of cooler stratospheric haze. The cyclones drift to the...
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New Study Reveals How Jupiter’s Storms Hide Ammonia
Jupiter’s weather just got even stranger. A new study published in the Journal Science Advances revealed that the gas giant’s turbulent thunderstorms create massive, softball-sized...
China Uses Gravitational Slingshots to Rescue Two Satellites Stuck in Orbit for 123 Days
In a major display of technical ingenuity, China has successfully rescued two satellites—DRO-A and DRO-B—that were stuck in the wrong orbit for 123 days following...
Super Earths are Quite Common Outside the Solar System, New Study Reveals
A team of international astronomers, led by Weicheng Zang from the Centre for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (Cfa), had announced the discovery of a...
Scientists Reportedly Found a Potential Sign of Life on a Distant Planet: What You Need to Know
A team of astronomers have reportedly discovered biological activity outside the solar system. The scientists have revealed that the distant planet, named K2-18 b, comprises...
New Study Finds Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall Bigger and Nearer Than Thought
Astronomers have revealed that the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, a massive network of galaxies, might be bigger than they realised. By mapping the cosmos with...
Iran’s Folded Rocks Reveal Ancient Tectonic Power at Asia-Europe Boundary
The deformed rocks of Iran are formed due to strong mountain ridges and valleys in the Greater Caucasus mountain range, southwest of the Caspian Sea....
Hydrogen Gas Cloud Might Help Solve the Mystery of Missing Non-Dark Matter of the Universe
It is observed that about half of the matter cannot be occupied just by stars and galaxies. Scientists say that hydrogen gas clouds could unveil...
Astronomers Detect Methane in the Atmosphere of the Nearest T Dwarf Star to Earth
The scientists have found methane in the atmosphere of WISEA J181006.18 −101000.5, the T dwarf closest to Earth. The study was published in the online...
Dinosaurs Weren’t Doomed Before the Asteroid Hit, New Research Suggests
Scientists say that dinosaurs weren’t doomed when an asteroid hit Earth. Fossil unearthings before the asteroid collision, at the end of the Cretaceous epoch, show...