Astronomers have long been intrigued by Venus, our closest planetary neighbor, often envisioning it as a world that may have once mirrored the hospitable conditions… Read More »Venus Was Never Habitable, Study Finds
Physicists have long been on a quest to uncover the mysterious origin of dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up approximately 80% of the… Read More »Warm Inflation: A New Model for Dark Matter Production
Asteroids are remnants from the early solar system, serving as snapshots of its formation and evolution. While many reside in the asteroid belt between Mars… Read More »Micrometeoroids Drive Chemical Reactions on Asteroids
Physicists have long grappled with the mystery of dark matter, an enigmatic substance that makes up approximately 27% of the universe’s mass-energy content. Unlike ordinary… Read More »Scientists Seek to Unveil Dark Matter’s Secrets with 21-Centimeter Observations
Astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley, have uncovered an intriguing phenomenon on Jupiter: large, Earth-sized spots that periodically appear and disappear at the planet’s… Read More »Mysterious Dark Spots Appear on Jupiter
A groundbreaking study, led by Dr. Sofia Sheikh from the SETI Institute and a cohort of undergraduate researchers from Penn State’s Pulsar Search Collaboratory, has… Read More »Understanding the Interstellar Medium Through Pulsar Observations
TOI-3261 b, a Neptune-sized exoplanet, has become a focal point for scientists studying planets that orbit extremely close to their stars, making it one of… Read More »TOI-3261 b: A Hot Neptune in the Extreme
Since the discovery of Pluto in 1930, researchers have been fascinated by the Kuiper Belt, a vast region beyond Neptune that contains remnants from the… Read More »Gravitational Interactions Shape the Kuiper Belt’s Evolution
An international team of astronomers, utilizing the power of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), has made significant progress in understanding the supermassive Galactic open… Read More »James Webb Space Telescope Reveals the Dynamic Structure of Westerlund 1
An international team of scientists has published a study highlighting the potential role of iron sulfides in the formation of life in early Earth’s terrestrial… Read More »Iron Sulfides May Have Catalyzed Early Life on Earth