Mars’ Moon Phobos Has Not Much Time Left
Scientists found out that Mars’ largest moon Phobos is year after year nearing its end. They have discovered that Phobos grooves might be formed as a result of the increased gravitational pull from Mars.
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Astronomers Take the Pulse of a Distant Galaxy
Astronomers at Yale and Harvard have announced that they found a new technique to measure the pulse from galaxies. They have measured pulsation from a distant galaxy, known as Messier 87, which is 53...
Scientists Found out the Most Distant Dwarf Planet
By using Subaru Telescope, scientists from the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences have detected a new dwarf planet called V774104. The planet is 15.4 billion kilometers away from our Sun and three...
The Milky Way in 2K Resolution
This time-lapse video contains images of the Milky Way on a starry night sky, taken from Allenspark, Colorado. The pictures were taken by an astrophotographer, Kyle Ussery.
The Order of Planets in Our Solar System
In the following video, Trace Dominguez and Amy Shira Teitel from DNews, try to answer one of the most debated questions – “Why do the planets in our Solar System follow the order we...
Scientists Discovered the First Gamma-Ray Pulsar in Another Galaxy
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered the powerful gamma-ray pulsar in the Tarantula Nebula that is located 163,000 light-years away from the Earth. The Tarantula Nebula belongs to a satellite galaxy near the...
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Detects Icy Cloud on Titan
A new ice cloud was discovered around Titan’s south pole, in its stratosphere. It makes scientists think that the winter on Titan begins. According to them, Titan’s annual season lasts about 7 years, and...
Animated Images Show a White Dwarf Tears Asteroid Apart
This animated video represents 12 year process of ring formation around a white dwarf. This white dwarf is seven times smaller of the planet Saturn, but 2,500 times more massive than it. The white...
Chaotic Spins of Pluto’s Moons
According to the latest data from the New Horizons spacecraft, Pluto’s moons – Charon, Hydra, Nix, Kerberos, and Styx – show extraordinary behavior that has not been seen in any of the moons in...
Aurora Borealis, Seen from Camden Lake, Ontario
This video represents magnificent Aurora Borealis over Camden Lake, Ontario, Canada. The images were taken on November 3rd, 2015.
25 Interesting Facts About Mars
This video has selected 25 most interesting facts about our closest neighbor planet, Mars, which has intrigued humans since ancient times. The video compares the Red Planet with the Earth and addresses their differences...
The Milky Way Above the Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
An astrophotographer Jeremy Wong captured these beautiful pictures on October 20th, in the area of the Lake Tekapo in New Zealand.
Solar Storms Change the Climate on Mars
In the following video, we can see how solar wind erosions influence Martian atmosphere. According to the NASA’s latest research, scientists revealed that the Sun had deprived Mars of water made its atmosphere extreme...
Planet Hunters in Search for a New Earth
In this video, planet hunters, who are looking for a new Earth, explain how this process looks like. The video gives us a review of the searching process that lasts twenty years.
A Wandering Starless Planet Might Be a Place of Molten Metal Clouds
A starless planet was discovered two years ago and is located about 80 light-years away from our planet. Scientists speculate that the lonely planet PSO J318.5-22 might have a very unusual climate pattern with...
The New Hubble Image Portrays Two Stars Surrounded by Dust
In this new image, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured two stars in the middle of gas and dust in the so-called Chamaeleon I Dark Cloud. These two stars are the parts of a quadruple...
Solar System Once Had a Fifth Gas Giant Planet
According to astrophysicists at the University of Toronto, there was a fifth giant gas planet in our Solar System four million years ago. They explain their evidence in a paper published in the Astrophysical...
The Meteor Shower, Seen from Poland
In this video, bright fireballs in the night sky in Poland lit up the whole night sky and turned night into day yesterday. According to astronomers, it seems that the annual Taurid meteor shower...
