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Topic: Astronomy (page 7)

UFOs (Getty Images/KTSDesign/SCIENCEPHOTOLIBRARY)

The race to unearth an alien meteorite

This illustration plots changes in the brightness of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse. (NASA, ESA, and E. Wheatley (STScI))

Mystery of the dimming star solved

Earth viewed from Space (Getty Images/Jaiphet Seehawong)

Earth is spinning faster than it should

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the distinct signature of water, along with evidence for clouds and haze, in the atmosphere surrounding a hot, puffy gas giant planet orbiting a distant Sun-like star on July 12, 2022 in space. The observation, which reveals the presence of specific gas molecules based on tiny decreases in the brightness of precise colors of light, is the most detailed of its kind to date, demonstrating Webb's unprecedented ability to analyze atmospheres hundreds of light-years away. (NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI)

How Webb telescope will search for E.T.

Chris Impey, Daniel Apai - The Conversation

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Jupiter and Saturn (NASA/iStock/Getty Images)

Why Saturn has rings and Jupiter doesn't

Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope. (NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez)

A micrometeoroid damages James Webb

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the distinct signature of water, along with evidence for clouds and haze, in the atmosphere surrounding a hot, puffy gas giant planet orbiting a distant Sun-like star on July 12, 2022 in space. The observation, which reveals the presence of specific gas molecules based on tiny decreases in the brightness of precise colors of light, is the most detailed of its kind to date, demonstrating Webb's unprecedented ability to analyze atmospheres hundreds of light-years away. (NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI)

Webb sees water vapor on another planet

James Webb Space Telescope looking at galaxies (Photo illustration by NASA)

Webb's first five images explained

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The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) is nestled within a natural basin in China's remote and mountainous southwestern Guizhou province. (Getty Images/Jeff Dai/Stocktrek Images)

China's mysterious alien radio signal

UFO in flight above urban park (Getty Images/ Ray Massey)

NASA is putting together a UFO team

Perseverance rover on Mars (Getty Images/dima_zel/iStock)

Mars rover adopts a pet rock by accident

Space warp travels through the universe (Getty Images/pixelparticle)

Interstellar travel via nomad planets?

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Artist's concept of the hypothetical Planet Nine (Caltech/R. Hurt [IPAC])

Did our solar system lose a planet?

UFO flying toward Earth (Getty Images)

Mystery stars could be alien

A NASA image of one of the Voyager space probes. Voyager 1 and its identical sister craft Voyager 2 were launched in 1977 to study the outer Solar System and eventually interstellar space. (NASA/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Voyager 1 is sending back weird signals

Asteroid (Getty Images)

A large asteroid will just miss Earth

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Mars surface, canyons (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

No living, smoking gun in Mars meteorite

U.S. Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray explains a video of unidentified aerial phenomena, as he testifies before a House Intelligence Committee subcommittee hearing at the U.S. Capitol on May 17, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Inside Congress' bizarre UFO hearing

Artist's interpretation of habitable alien planets, a distant star system (Getty Images/dottedhippo)

Are we looking for aliens the wrong way?

In this handout photo provided by NASA, This is the first image of Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. (NASA Via Getty Images)

First image of our galaxy's black hole

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Black Hole (Getty Images)

A black hole suddenly flips over

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare – as seen in the bright flash in the lower right portion of the image– at 11:57 p.m. EST on April 19, 2022. The image shows a subset of extreme ultraviolet light that highlights the extremely hot material in flares and is colorized in SDO channel color blue. (NASA/SDO)

Bad weather on the sun heads for Earth

This artist’s impression shows a two-star system where micronovae may occur. The blue disc swirling around the bright white dwarf in the centre of the image is made up of material, mostly hydrogen, stolen from its companion star. As the material falls on the hot surface of the star, it triggers a micronova explosion, contained by the magnetic fields at one of the white dwarf’s poles. (ESO/M. Kornmesser, L. Calçada)

The supernova's tiny counterpart

Jupiter's large moon, Europa, is covered by a thick crust of ice above a vast ocean of liquid water (Getty Images/Ron Miller/Stocktrek Images)

The chance of life on Europa goes up

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