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Why two 'cosmic superstructures' are challenging scientific belief
1+ hour, 25+ min ago (910+ words) The Big Ring and Giant Arc don't fit the current Cosmological Principle, leaving scientists to consider if there's a new area of physics In 2024, astronomers discovered a gigantic ring of galaxies 1. 3 billion light-years in diameter. Referred to as the "Big…...
Habitable Or Barren? Nearby Planet Is Lighter Than Astronomers Thought
1+ hour, 30+ min ago (420+ words) Home " Science & Technology News " Astronomy News Research led by Paul Robertson (University of California, Irvine) (" moz Zz - stock. adobe. com) Known as GJ 3378 b, the planet orbits a small, dim red dwarf star just 25 light-years from Earth. Small stars like…...
This Intriguing Exoplanet is Just 25 Light-Years from Earth'Is Its Too Dangerous to Be Home to Life?
1+ hour, 47+ min ago (659+ words) Researchers have discovered a potentially habitable exoplanet just 25 light-years from Earth'but is its precarious location on the cosmic shore too dangerous to make it a home for extraterrestrial life? In a recent paper in The Astrophysical Journal, researchers at the…...
Nearby exoplanet just got more Earth-like and promising for life
2+ hour, 46+ min ago (1289+ words) GJ 3378 b is a super Earth exoplanet that orbits a M-type star. Its mass is 2. 3 Earths, it takes 21. 5 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0. 09673 AU from its star. (CREDIT: NASA) GJ 3378b has moved closer to the…...
NASA uncovers decade-old mystery surrounding the 'pink planet"
4+ hour, 4+ min ago (717+ words) 02/07/2026 " 17: 33 (GMT+07: 00) The study, led by astronomers at Northwestern University in the United States, found that the object's atmosphere contains an unusual mix of chemical compounds along with salt clouds that have never before been directly observed. The discovery not only…...
Webb finds brave planet that survived the death of its sun. It should have died too
3+ hour, 17+ min ago (344+ words) A giant planet located about 81 light-years from Earth has given astronomers a rare glimpse into the distant future of planetary systems, including our own. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists have studied a planet called WD 1856 b, which…...
Nearby "Super-Earth" GJ 3378b is more Earth-like than previously thought
6+ hour, 40+ min ago (318+ words) The planet, named GJ 3378b, sits 25 light-years away in the constellation Camelopardalis and orbits within the habitable zone of its host star'the region where planetary temperatures could allow liquid surface water to exist. The study, published in The Astrophysical Journal, was…...
Exoplanet GJ 3378b emerges as a better candidate to host life
6+ hour, 53+ min ago (339+ words) Astronomers using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at Mc Donald Observatory have found that the nearby exoplanet GJ 3378b is much more Earth-like than previously thought. Situated only 25 light-years away in the Camelopardalis constellation, this rocky planet orbits a red dwarf star within…...
The universe isn't as uniform as we thought
8+ hour, 11+ min ago (847+ words) Modern cosmology rests on a simple assumption: if we look on large enough scales, matter should be distributed evenly, with no preferred direction within the cosmos. This is known as the cosmological principle. Now, as new telescopes both on Earth…...
Pink is almost nonexistent in nature, but NASA has just found it in mysterious "galactic pearls" formed 3 million years ago
17+ hour, 41+ min ago (431+ words) Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/Sejong Univ. /Hur et al; JWST: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, V. Almendros-Abad, M. Guarcello, K. Monsch, and the EWOCS team. Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare and K. Arcand Scores of stars ringed in neon pink blaze against clouds…...