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Johannes Hevelius - First person to map the Moon
German astronomer Johannes Hevelius used a microscope to make the first detailed map of Earth's natural satellite.
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Gravitational waves: The 'landscape' changer of cosmic evolution
In the process of discovering to shed light on cosmic evolution, life and death on planets, astronomers have discovered a record number of gravitational waves.
Space science
NASA/ESA telescope captures strange X-rays from 3 'hell' planets
NASA's Chandra X-ray Telescope and ESA's XMM-Newton satellite investigated anomalous X-ray activity from three white dwarfs and discovered three objects that were planet…
Space science
What will America's space science look like in the next 10 years?
The latest survey of American astronomy and astrophysics from 2022 to 2032 recommended that NASA create a new program to develop several large telescopes.
Space science
New breakthrough in black hole research helps find 'missing link' in the universe's 10 billion year history
Recently, experts have discovered what is known as the 'missing link' in the process of understanding the universe.
Space science
Discovered a series of utopian planets with a ground like... eggshells
The eggshell planet will have a shell identical to some of the lowlands on Venus.
Space science
NASA discovered the first planet outside the galaxy
Scientists have detected signs of a transiting planet outside the Milky Way, and this could be the first planet ever discovered outside our galaxy.
Space science
Detecting a young black hole right next to the galaxy containing the Earth
A newly discovered black hole lurks in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.
Archeology
Tiny skull: 'ghost humans' live side by side with us for 100,000 years
Scientists have successfully recreated the skull named Leti, which is the only complete skull representing the mysterious extinct Homo naledi species, approximately the…
Space science
The Spitzer Space Telescope captures the image of a nebula that looks like the monster Godzilla
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope sent back to Earth a stunning image of a dust cloud thousands of light-years away.
Space science
Bad news about 'alien signal' from 4.2 light years from Earth
Scientists have just given the final answer to the signal that stirred astronomers in 2019 from the Proxima Centauri star system, which has a planet thought to be habita…
Space science
Discovered a planet that lost its entire atmosphere after a huge meteorite impact
Astronomers have discovered for the first time a planet that lost its entire atmosphere after an extremely large meteorite impact.
Space science
Discover a new planet, easy to live like... Europe?
A new planet in the form of Little Neptune could have a cool temperate climate and liquid water - the potential for life.
Space science
The strangest 'solar system' in the universe: The planets rotate... perpendicular
The orbital planes of the newly discovered planets are almost perpendicular to each other, because 2 out of 3 chose to travel from pole to pole of the parent star.
Space science
Detects the existence of water in a galaxy 12.8 billion light years from Earth
Scientists say they have discovered evidence of water in a galaxy about 12.8 billion light-years from Earth.