December 2024

Currently, 5,788 exoplanets have been confirmed in 4,326 star systems, while thousands more candidates await confirmation. So far, the vast majority of …

Do we have a planetary bias when it comes to understanding where life can perpetuate? It’s only natural that we do. After …

We know that interstellar objects occasionally visit our solar system. So far, we have only discovered two interstellar objects (ISOs), but that’s …

The orbits of the planets around the Sun have been the source for many a scientific debate. Their current orbital properties are …

Propulsion technologies are the key to exploring the outer solar system, and many organizations have been working on novel ones. One with …

Dyson spheres and rings have always held a special fascination for me. The concept is simple, build a great big structure either …

Sometimes in astronomy, a simple question has a difficult answer. One such question is this: what is the mass of our galaxy? …

Don’t let the bright Moon deter you from seeing the one of the best meteor showers of the year. One of the …

As a species, we’ve come to the awareness that we’re a minuscule part of a vast Universe defined by galaxy superclusters and …

The anthropic principle states that the fundamental parameters of the Universe such as the strength of the fundamental forces, have been finely …