Astronomers have discovered an Earth-size planet that is showered with so much radiation, its atmosphere eroded away long ago, leaving it bare. Life as we know it can’t exist on this blistering world, but astronomers are interested in it for another reason: For the first time, they may be able to study the geology of…

Leftover light from the young universe has a major flaw, and we don’t know how to fix it. It’s the cold spot. It’s just way too big and way too cold. Astronomers aren’t sure what it is, but they mostly agree that it’s worth investigating. The cosmic microwave background (CMB) was generated when our universe…

What it is: NGC 4753, a lenticular galaxy Where it is: 60 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo When it was shared: May 13, 2024 Why it’s so special: This is the best-ever image of NGC 4753, a galaxy with uniquely distorted dust lanes that have led some people to nickname it the…

Notre Dame Eco and Space Club hosted the 7th National Earth and Space Summit (NESS) on the premises of Notre Dame College from May 16 to May 18, 2024. This festival aimed to ignite young minds in astronomy and ecology from across the country. The festival gathered around 2500 participants and total 6,000 visitors from…

International Astronomy Day 2024: Celebrating the Wonders of Space Askari Jaffer Hans News Service | 18 May 2024 10:00 AM GMT Highlights The vast expanse of outer space has captivated human imagination for centuries, filled with enigmas that inspire awe and curiosity. The vast expanse of outer space has captivated human imagination for centuries, filled…

Barry Sawchuk stands next to some of the space debris he found on his farm. Credit: Twitter/Gillian Massie/980 CJME. Barry Sawchuk and his son were tending to their farmland in southeastern Saskatchewan when they came across several pieces of space junk that may have come from a SpaceX mission, according to reports in the Saskatoon…

At least seven stars in the Milky Way show signs of potentially harboring a hypothetical, super-advanced form of alien technology known as a Dyson sphere, scientists claim. While the researchers can not be totally sure that these stars host intelligent civilizations, they will undoubtedly pique the interest of scientists searching for extraterrestrial life in the…

A pair of black holes has been observed colliding in the ancient universe for the first time. The observations, by the James Webb Space Telescope, reveal a merger of two galaxies and the monster black holes at their centres when the universe was just 740m years old, about a 20th of its current age. The…

May 15, 2024 Cosmos Cosmos is a quarterly science magazine. We aim to inspire curiosity in ‘The Science of Everything’ and make the world of science accessible to everyone. By Cosmos A new study using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggests that supermassive black holes are rapidly shutting off star formation in…