Astronomy

Ancient structure near Stonehenge may have inspired its solstice alignment, archaeologists say

The site, believed to have likely served as a focus for religious gatherings, bears extensive evidence of feasting and large-scale gatherings.

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
Sheep grazing near Stonehenge.
TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, is shown in this conceptual illustration obtained by Reuters on March 28, 2018.

Scientists identify nearby 'super-Earth' as promising candidate in search for alien life - study

NASA plans to launch the Habitable Worlds Observatory in the 2040s, a mission whose goal is “to image Earth-like planets around other sun-like stars,” according to NASA’s website.

|ByEITAN ELIAS
An artist's concept of a dwarf planet.

Atmosphere detected on celestial body in solar system's far reaches

Astronomers have identified another object from this realm, with a diameter of roughly 310 miles (500 km), that has an atmosphere - albeit a thin one.

|ByREUTERS
The Nebra dky disc

TV murder series rekindles interest in the mysteries of the Nebra sky disc

The real story of its finding unfolded in the late 1990s on the forested crest of the Mittelberg in Saxony-Anhalt, where the object lay concealed for thousands of years.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Get your telescopes ready: Five planets to align on Monday

Scientists recommend finding a clear view of the western horizon and using binoculars to view the planets.

MARCH 26, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
This artist's impression shows two Earth-sized worlds passing in front of their parent red dwarf star, which is much smaller and cooler than our Sun. The star and its orbiting planets TRAPPIST-1b and TRAPPIST-1c reside 40 light-years away.

SpaceX launches international crew to orbit ISS for NASA

The flight came 72 hours after an initial launch attempt was scrubbed in the final minutes of countdown early on Monday.

MARCH 2, 2023ByREUTERS
NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 mission, that includes NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, the United Arab Emirates Sultan Al-Neyadi and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, launches to the International Space Station from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, March 2, 2023

Astrobiologist narrows search for alien life to five planets

The new theory has saved countless hours of research and significant material resources.

FEBRUARY 27, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The solar system (Illustrative).

NASA's James Webb finds 6 huge galaxies that shouldn't exist - study

This discovery could completely upend our understanding of space, with the paper's co-author describing the entire situation as "bananas."

FEBRUARY 22, 2023ByAARON REICH
This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years. In this image, representing Earth's night sky in 3.75 billion years, Andromeda (left) fills the field of view

New steps in measuring the age of the universe discovered - study

Scientists have confirmed the shape of a Kolovae, which may be the next step in dating the Universe's creation.

FEBRUARY 18, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The Pleiades, an open cluster consisting of approximately 3,000 stars at a distance of 400 light-years (120 parsecs) from Earth.

Israeli scientists shed light on mysterious matter jets in space - study

Researchers at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan have re-examined the data and now apparently solved the puzzle.

FEBRUARY 2, 2023ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
An example of a pulsar, a neutron star emitting beams of electromagnetic radiation (Illustrative).

ESO scientists capture new stunning image of stellar nursery

The nebula in question is known as the Sh2-54 nebula and is one of the many awe-inspiring cosmic structures located within the tail of the snake constellation Serpens.

JANUARY 4, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The Sh2-54 nebula in the infrared with VISTA.

Christmas Eve: Spot Mercury, Venus and the Moon without binoculars

Stargazers can look forward to seeing Mercury and Venus, as well as the moon that orbits around our planet, without binoculars or a telescope.

DECEMBER 23, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The planet Venus

'Hot Jupiter' alien planet spiraling to its doom around aging star - study

The discovery will serve as a "celestial laboratory for years to come" and will help astronomers better understand tidal dynamics.

DECEMBER 19, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
An artist's concept of the Kepler-1658 system. Kepler-1658b, orbiting with a period of just 3.8 days, was the first exoplanet candidate discovered by Kepler.

Israeli scientist helps discover the universe's first stars - Cambridge study

Astrophysicists managed for the first time to statistically characterize the first galaxies in the universe.

DECEMBER 4, 2022ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
The first full-color image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a revolutionary apparatus designed to peer through the cosmos to the dawn of the universe, shows the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, known as Webb’s First Deep Field, in a composite made from images at different wavelengths.