2+ hour, 57+ min ago   (290+ words) More than 6,000 exoplanets have been confirmed in the Milky Way, including terrestrial worlds that may be composed mainly of rock and metal. The NASA Exoplanet Archive listed 6,366 confirmed planets as of September 11, 2026, along with thousands of additional candidates awaiting verification....

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (751+ words) Mercury formed about 4.5 billion years ago from clouds of gas and dust. The early history of the Solar System was marked by numerous collisions between celestial bodies. The planets were already hot when they formed, while these impacts generated additional…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (943+ words) Earth’s surface water puts the planet in its own privileged category among the bodies of the Solar System. Nowhere else is water found in such abundance, and it is water that made the emergence and development of life possible. There…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (228+ words) BGNES A new image from NASA and the European Space Agency’s Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a striking nebula known as LHA 120-N44 (or simply N44), located around 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (617+ words) Venus is perhaps the most treacherous celestial body in the Solar System. Like Saturn’s largest moon—Titan—the planet is shrouded in a dense atmosphere that prevents its surface from being observed with optical telescopes and necessitates the use of…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (392+ words) Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have been traveling away from Earth for nearly 50 years. They have now reached a region where the Sun’s influence gradually weakens and gives way to interstellar space. According to the Hungarian publication Divany, the probes’ instruments recorded…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (743+ words) Now that NASA’s “Nancy Grace Roman” space telescope has set course for its final destination, more and more of the mission’s scientific goals are beginning to take shape. Among them is the possibility that the telescope could discover an Earth-like…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (600+ words) A single unusual particle of light may prove to be the first direct trace of dark matter, one of the greatest unresolved mysteries in physics. Scientists caution, however, that it is still far too early to claim a discovery. At…...

2+ week, 14+ hour ago   (741+ words) At first glance, it may seem unnecessary to launch a new telescope while the “James Webb” and the now 36-year-old “Hubble” are still operational. However, experts expect “Roman” to complement the capabilities of the two observatories while ushering in a…...