By contrast, Deimos is tiny, with a radius of 6 km, and quite a bit further out, more than 23,000 km from the surface. It is so small that, on the surface of Mars, Deimos would only appear about as ...

Apr. 16, 2025 — Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these 'polar ...

A team of astronomers has detected what they call the most promising signs to date of a possible biosignature, or signs of ...

The glowing object was a bolide, fireballs that explode in a bright flash, according to experts. It streaked across Mexico’s predawn skies on Wednesday.

A chemical called dimethyl sulfide popped up in an analysis of exoplanet K2-18b’s atmosphere. On Earth, it’s only made by ...

One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on ...

The Lyrid meteor shower — "considered one of the oldest and most reliable celestial shows of the year" — will overlap the Eta ...

Why does the world store nuclear waste and just not shoot it into the Sun or deep space? – Jason, age 16, Mackay, Queensland.

NASA wrote in its report, cited from The Times of India, Friday, April 11, 2025. Last year, NASA also recorded another important discovery through the James Webb Space Telescope. A unique planet named ...

Languages: English. NASA's James Webb Telescope has been investigating the first-ever case of a star caught swallowing a planet—and, in classic crime thriller style, there has been a plot twist.

Though no new planets are forming, the structure is similar to a planet-forming disk—possibly created from material ejected during the collision. The findings were published in The Astrophysical ...

In a stunning twist, new observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) revealed that the first star believed to have swallowed a planet did not expand to engulf it as previously thought.