A team of international scientists has detected traces of phosphine gas in the atmosphere of Venus. A paper on this discovery was published in Nature Astronomy journal by a team of international scientists.

WION Dispatch: Experts detect Phosphine gas on Venus

Phosphine is a chemical compound made up of one atom of phosphorus and three atoms of hydrogen, and scientists have also spotted it on Earth, Jupiter and Saturn.

Scientists see hints of life on Venus | Phosphine discovered in Venus' clouds

Scientists recently discovered 37 volcanic structures on the planet of Venus situated in our solar system. These volcano-esque structures were active until very recently, or perhaps still are - scientists are not sure.

Not a dormant planet: Venus is home to 37 recently active volcanic structures!

Throughout this week, Jupiter will be at its brightest in the sky. The planet will reach “opposition” last night (July 14), which implies that the planet will now be directly opposite the sun in the sky, and the nearest to Earth.

Jupiter is currently emitting more light than our brightest star Sirius!

Astronomers may have just discovered the source of all life in the universe! A new study published on Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy claims that the source of all life is white dwarfs.

'We all come from star dust' is no longer just a saying, and scientists agree!

Pluto, a dwarf planet which was formerly known as the ninth planet in our solar system may have a subsurface ocean owing to its initial warm temperatures, researches posited on Monday.

Pluto may have been a warmer body when it was formed 4.5 billion years ago

Astronomers, for the first time, have spotted what appears to be a planet in the process of being born -- within a huge disk of dense gas and dust surrounding a newly formed star.

Astronomers have spotted an alien planet as it is being formed

Uranus wasn’t always tilted! A study claims that the planet was struck by an earth-size rock which then titled it and may also be responsible for birthing the planet’s moons.

Uranus wasn't always tilted: Find out what actually happened!

NASA is going to fund four concept studies for potential robotic missions to Venus, Jupiter’s moon Io and Neptune’s moon Triton under its Discovery Program to investigate how the cosmos came into existence.

NASA to explore Venus, moons of Jupiter and Neptune next

The journey of NASA's dauntless Voyager 2 spacecraft through our solar system's farthest reaches has given scientists new insight into a poorly understood distant frontier: the unexpectedly distinct boundary marking where the sun's energetic influence ends and interstellar space begins.

NASA probe provides insight on solar system's border with interstellar space

In a conversation with WION, Angelos Tsiaras, an astronomer at UCL, shared insights on the presence of water on an Earth-like planet outside our solar system. Water vapour was found in the atmosphere of K2-18b, one of the hundreds of "super-Earths" - worlds ranging in size between Earth and Neptune - documented in a growing new field of astronomy devoted to the exploration of so-called exoplanets elsewhere in the Milky Way galaxy.

Watch: 'Will try to find methane next,' says astronomer on water found on exoplanet

Here's another hope for finding life on another planet. Water vapour detected in Exoplanet's atmosphere.

Discovery Outside of our solar system

In a first, water found on earth-like planet beyond our solar system

Is there life on planets outside our solar system? How did stars and galaxies form in the earliest years of the universe? How do black holes shape galaxies? Scientists are expected to explore those and other fundamental questions about the universe when they peer deep into the night sky using a new telescope planned for the summit of Hawaii's tallest mountain. But the Thirty Meter Telescope is a decade away from being built. And Native Hawaiian protesters have tried to thwart the start of construction by blocking a road to the mountain. They say installing yet another observatory on Mauna Kea's peak would further defile a place they consider sacred. The large size of the telescope's mirror means it would collect more light, allowing it to see faint, far-away objects such as stars and galaxies dating back as long as 13 billion years. Hundreds of demonstrators are gathered at the base of Hawaii's tallest mountain to protest the construction of a giant telescope on land that some Native Hawaiians consider sacred. Groups of activists sang and prayed at the base of the mountain on Sunday afternoon. They declared the area, which is well off the highway at the intersection of the mountain's access road, a place of refuge and safety.

A plan to build the world's largest telescope, Hawaiians protest it's build

Launched in January 2006, New Horizons embarked on its 4 billion-mile journey toward the solar system’s edge to study the dwarf planet Pluto and its five moons.

NASA space probe 'phones home' in landmark mission to solar system's edge

A NASA spaceship is zooming toward the farthest, and quite possibly the oldest, cosmic body ever photographed by humankind, a tiny, distant world called Ultima Thule some four billion miles (6.

NASA spaceship zooms toward farthest world ever photographed

Is Mercury's core liquid or solid, and why -- on the smallest planet in our solar system -- is it so big? What can the planet closest to the Sun tell us about how our solar system came into being?

Mercury mission to explore origin of Solar System

Whether anywhere other than Earth has harboured life, perhaps even in microbial form, is one of the paramount questions in science

NASA rover data shows Mars had the ingredients needed for life

The study done by scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has said that the reason of this is the moon as it is moving away from the earth, affecting the earth spins on its axis

In million years, days on earth will last for 25 hours

TESS is on a mission to find thousands of new exoplanets orbiting nearby stars

NASA TESS launch: One-of-its-kind mission to hunt for new, habitable planets

Travelling with his wife Brigitte and delegation of businessmen and ministry officials, Macron will stay in India from March 9 to March 12

French President Emmanuel Macron to arrive in Delhi today on four-day visit

Data from NASA's Juno spacecraft, orbiting the solar system's largest planet since 2016

NASA's Juno spacecraft strips Jupiter down to its underwear

Mayo and his colleagues analysed hundreds of signals of potential exoplanets to determine which signals were created by exoplanets and which were caused by other sources

NASA discovers 100 new planets beyond our solar system

The space agency's Kepler Space Telescope, for the first time, has discovered an eighth planet in an alien solar system

NASA finds another solar system with eight planets

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