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ESA's Mars Express probe has been exploring Mars from orbit for more than twenty years. The way it mapped the surface with its High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) has drastically changed the way we see the Red Planet. In a recent…

For about a century, scientists have known that the universe is in a state of constant expansion. In honor of the scientists who conclusively demonstrated this, this extension became known as the Hubble constant (or Hubble-Lemaitre…

Red dwarfs make up the vast majority of stars in the galaxy. Because of their ubiquity, they host the most rocky exoplanets we have found so far - which in turn makes them interesting for astrobiological studies. However, there's a…

Superliminous supernovae are miraculous events. They are also an important tool for astronomers to measure cosmic distances and the rate at which the universe is expanding. Part of the cosmic distance ladder, these incredibly…

By Vijay Jayaraj Imagine irony to identify a substance as "dangerous" just to determine that the true danger is not in the substance, but in the plot of its defamation. This is the case with carbon dioxide (CO₂) and how it was…

The James Webb World Camp Telescope has unveiled many miracles of the early universe, but only a few discoveries have confused astronomers more than some mysterious "small red dots". These tiny, brilliant galaxies appear over Deep…

From the daily skeptic By Chris Morrison The science, which the Cry Babies refused in the USA, have given the Federal Supreme Court in Massachusetts to get an injunction against the report on the work of the Ministry of Energy…

Every material used as a light sail is bound to very restrictive physical requirements. It must be extremely light, cannot melt from the energy used on it and does not have to bend from this pressure, but does not break. Various…

From Tilak’s Substack It is one of the enduring marvels of political hubris that a small, deindustrialising island nation contributing less than 0.8% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions believes it can “lead the world” into…

Astronomers in Pan-Starrs Observatory in Hawaii wrote the story in 2017 when they found 'Oumuamua, the first interstellar object (ISO), which was ever observed. Two years later, the Interstellare Comet 2i/Borisov became the…