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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered six rogue planets drifting alone in a distant star-forming nebula within the Perseus Molecular Cloud, located approximately 960 light-years from...

A groundbreaking new study has revealed that many rocky exoplanets, particularly larger ones known as "super-Earths," may have massive reservoirs of water trapped deep within their molten cores. This discovery...

Astronomers are advocating for a revised definition of what constitutes a planet, aiming to include thousands of celestial bodies orbiting stars other than our Sun. This initiative seeks to address...

The presence of moons, or natural satellites, around planets has fascinated scientists and astronomers for centuries. While Earth has only one moon, many other planets in our solar system, such...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been making significant strides in the exploration of potentially habitable exoplanets. Recent observations have focused on a handful of small, rocky planets located within...

Hoosiers and skywatchers worldwide are gearing up for a much-anticipated celestial event on June 3, 2024: a planetary alignment involving six planets. However, NASA has tempered expectations about what will...

The universe is full of mysteries, and one of the most intriguing is the existence of rogue planets. Unlike the planets in our solar system, these celestial bodies do not...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid telescope has achieved a remarkable milestone by capturing its first science images, offering breathtaking views of the cosmos. These images showcase the telescope's ability...

Next month, on June 3rd, a rare and spectacular astronomical event will take place. Six planets—Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—will align in the night sky in an event...

Today’s stories include Astronomers discover traces of ‘super-supernovas’ that destroyed earliest stars to Where is the center of the Universe? and much more. Where is the center of the Universe?...

Not all stars are like the sun, a yellow class G star. M-Type stars like Trappist 1 comprise 70% of all stars in the Universe.  These cool, ancient objects glow...

Posted on May 23, 2022 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial Life, James Webb Space Telescope, Milky Way Galaxy, Origin of Life, Science, Space News, Technology, Universe Today’s stories...

Posted on Apr 12, 2022 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Black Holes, Cosmology, Dark Matter, Extraterrestrial Life, Science, Science News, Space News, Universe Today’s stories range from the Strange Case of...

Astronomers have known since the 1990s that planets exist around pulsars. It’s a reasonable hypothesis that planets might also exist around black holes, which have a weaker impact on their...

“Exoplanet statistics tell us all stars are orbited by some kind of planetary systems. The planets in the Alpha Centauri system are about a billion years older than the Sun...

Today’s stories range from Odd Radio Circles in Space to Why Our Sun Didn’t Have Sunspots for 70 years to NASA Should Send This New Message To Extraterrestrials With An...

Maxwell Moe, astrophysicist, NASA Einstein Fellow, University of Arizona via Jackie Faherty and ESO Imagine a galaxy filled with roaming, dark, lifeless island worlds – rogue, free-floating planets (FFPs) without...

Posted on Dec 14, 2021 in Astronomy, Climate Change, Extraterrestrial Life Astronomers have said that Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. In science fiction movies and...

It’s been a Red-Letter week in our Universe with news ranging from everything you’ll need to know about the upcoming launch of James Webb Space Telescope and a new era...

Welcome to the strange new worlds of the Exoplanet Era. A new category of exoplanets, known as eggshell planets, have ultra-thin, brittle crusts only one kilometer in depth, too thin...

Posted on Oct 25, 2021 in Astronomy, Supernova “After having monitored tens of thousands of galaxies, we know there are other discoveries waiting to happen. Either faint objects, objects that...

    “The Archean Eon stands out for being so incredibly distant, and incredibly distinct, from modern Earth,” University of Washington astrobiologist, Tyler Robinson, told The Daily Galaxy about the...

The Milky Way’s bulge is the ancient and crowded central hub of our Galaxy. It contains about one quarter of the total stellar mass of the Milky Way and has...

    Enigmatic viruses –not living, yet not dead–help create, protect and transform the universe, observed Carl Zimmer in his classic A Planet of Viruses. Viruses, he notes, have had...

Posted on Aug 1, 2021 in Astronomy, Exoplanets, Science Planets beyond our own solar system were once thought to be out of the reach of humans.  The idea that we...

We’re kicking off the week with intriguing stories from our Universe beyond–from exoplanets in the ancient, densely populated bulge of the Milky Way to the mystery of eternal brown dwarfs...

“The insights we gain from thinking about raindrops and clouds in diverse environments are key to understanding exoplanet habitability,” said Robin Wordsworth, Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at...

Posted on Apr 19, 2021 in Science, Space, Universe Astronomers Peer Through the Fog at Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole –“Is It Emitting a Jet Angled Toward Earth?” “First Life-Bearing...

NASA’s announced the first instance of powered, controlled flight on another planet when the solar-powered “Ingenuity Mars Helicopter first became airborne at 3:34 a.m. EDT (12:34 a.m. PDT) – 12:33...

Posted on Mar 16, 2021 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Exoplanets, Science News “Liquid magma is actually quite runny,” said University of Chicago planetary scientist, Edwin Kite, about a new study by...

Since 1995 when exoplanet explorers from the Geneva Observatory in Switzerland, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz –who were recently awarded half of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for their...

In the Milky Way Galaxy, about three-fourths of the stars are M dwarfs. But there’s a deadly catch. New research indicates that M dwarfs which are prime targets for astronomers...

Ever since astronomers reached a consensus in the 1980s that invisible “dark matter” binds galaxies together and gravitationally shapes the cosmos — experimentalists have hunted for the elusive nonluminous particles....

  “Somewhere, on some other planet orbiting some very distant star, maybe in another galaxy, there could well be entities that are at least as intelligent as we are, and...

Posted on Oct 13, 2020 in Astronomy, Exoplanets, Solar System, Space “Historically, our assumption has been that the region around Jupiter is fairly empty, cleaned out by the giant planet’s...

Posted on Sep 4, 2020 in Astronomy, Exoplanets, Science, Solar System Unlike our remarkably flat Solar System, with its planets all orbiting in the same plane, the alien star-system GW...

“The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe –the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time,” said...

Posted on Aug 22, 2020 in Astronomy, Science “Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere,” said Carl Sagan. So, imagine a...

Andrew Siemion, director of the University of California Berkeley SETI Research Center, recently wrote in an email to The Daily Galaxy that “I suspect there are other intelligent civilizations in...

Posted on Apr 1, 2021 in Astronomy, Exoplanets, Milky Way Galaxy, Science “Plumes of water erupt from Europa and Enceladus, so we can tell that these bodies have subsurface oceans...

In Space Odyssey 2001, HAL 9000, the Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer, consigned the crew commander to his death by refusing to open the pod bay doors. Leaping forward to June,...

New research based on huge simulations involving hundreds of processors on the Australian National Computing Infrastructure using parameters run through a unique geodynamics code simulating the development of the interior...

Posted on Apr 15, 2021 in Astronomy, Exoplanets, Milky Way Galaxy, Science Named after Nancy Roman, known as the “Mother of Hubble,” NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope will explore uncharted...

Posted on Mar 30, 2020 in Astronomy, Extraterrestrial Life “Our Earth and the air we breathe have changed drastically since Earth formed 4.5 billions years ago,” said Lisa Kaltenegger, associate...

Posted on Feb 14, 2020 in Astronomy, Science Arrokoth, an object far beyond Pluto, a haunting image reminiscent of a Stone Age carving, has remained undisturbed since it first formed...

Posted on Feb 7, 2020 in Extraterrestrial Life, Science “It certainly changes how I think about things. Providing they have ice and a little heat, all those frigid cold planets...

“For a long time, scientists were really focused on finding sun- and Earth-like systems. That’s all we knew. But we found out that there’s this whole crazy diversity in planets....

Posted on Jan 16, 2020 in Astronomy, Dark Matter, Physics, Science “At first, we thought it was absurd. How else could you respond to the idea that black holes generate...

“For most of human history, the question of whether or not life exists elsewhere has belonged only within the philosophical realm. It’s only in recent years that we have had...

Posted on Jun 1, 2022 in Climate Change, Science “There have been many planet Earths” says astrophysicist Adam Frank who talks about climate change from an astrobiological lens. Frank’s observation...