How to Survive for a Whole Day on Mars?
Regardless of how much we may like “The Martian” movie that had Matt Daemon in the main role, we all need to be realistic and say that surviving on the Red Planet, even for a single day, is an extremely…
Finding Gold in Space: Can You Get Rich as an Astronomer?
When we think about gold, the vast majority of people think about searching it on Earth. If you find a chunk of 10 kilograms of gold, for instance, you will become pretty rich. But let’s not forget that apart from…
How Did the Moon Form and Why Does the Earth Have Only One?
Our Moon shines so brightly and dominant at night that it gave birth to numerous myths, legends, and stories over the centuries. The nocturnal cosmic object has not only been the subject of fairytales, however, as astronomers have also done…
A New Moon or Something Else? A Ring System Between Uranus and Saturn Contains Something Mysterious
There are about 300 discovered moons in the Solar System, just in case you thought that our Moon is unique. Planets are often surrounded by other smaller cosmic objects. Saturn and Jupiter, for instance, the two biggest planets in our…
Solar Flare Causes Radio Blackouts in Southeast Asia
On Tuesday night, an unstable sunspot triggered a massive solar flare, causing radio blackouts across vast areas on our planet. Regions from Southeast Asia and Australia were affected by the event. The information comes from WION, while Space.com backs it…
Weighty Matters: Your Weight on Every Planet in our Solar System
If your spouse or co-workers constantly nag you that you should lose some weight, maybe it’s time to move to another planet. That’s because we don’t have the same weight on any planet we could lay our foot on. The…
NASA’s Voyager 1 Interstellar Probe Can’t Send Data Back to Earth Anymore
Way back in 1977, only five years after the last Apollo mission that took human crew to the Moon, NASA sent two probes into space: Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. Both of them have reached farther places in the Universe…
How Technology Can Help Us Colonize Other Planets
We can’t imagine our life without technology nowadays. While it can certainly be just a caprice sometimes to use a powerful laptop or smartphone, technology can actually take human knowledge to new heights. Space exploration is not something new at…
Alien Life in Our Solar System: Is It Possible?
It’s not mandatory to be the reincarnation of Tesla to ask yourself why humanity has never made contact with aliens if there is such a thing in the Universe. If extraterrestrial life forms capable of intelligence really exist, the distances…
The Bennu Asteroid Could Hit Earth at Some Point, NASA Says
NASA has been keeping an eye on the Bennu asteroid for quite some time, and it’s now calculating the chances for the space rock to get into collision with our planet someday. Bennu measures about a third of a mile…
Solar Eruption Shoots Coronal Mass Ejection Toward Earth
From time to time, the Sun insists on showing us its dark side, which is totally different from its friendly, warming, and bright appearance that it usually shows. After all, the Sun is a star, which means that it’s by…
Asteroid the Size of a Tall Building Passed By UNDETECTED and Closer Than the Moon
A lot of people fear that our planet could one day be destroyed by a large asteroid, and you don’t need to be a scientist to realize that such a scenario might happen one day. Some astronomers are even convinced…
1994 XD is an Asteroid the Size of Dozens of Orcas, and It’s Heading Our Way
Asteroids are usually small enough to never be able to pose a threat to us. But even so, the Universe is defiant enough to break that rule sometimes, and it doesn’t seem to care a bit about our wishes and…
Solar Wind Interferes on the First Mission to the Sun
Our Sun is incredibly hot, and not in a way that would leave you drooling. Reaching temperatures of around 15 million degrees Celsius (27 million degrees Fahrenheit) at its core, our star is obviously no potential candidate for anyone’s future…
2023 HO18, an Imposing Asteroid, Flew Past the Earth
NASA’s asteroid tracker brings some thrilling news once again: an asteroid known as 2023 HO18, which is of a pretty imposing size, passed close to our planet yesterday, May 4. The space rock is large enough to be comparable with…
James Webb Discovers Water on One of the Moons of Saturn
Water existing anywhere in our Solar System is a clear indicator that some forms of life could also exist there as well. While our beloved Earth has a single moon revolving around it, we certainly cannot say the same about…
UAE Spacecraft Will Explore the Asteroid Belt
Does somebody still believe that only Europeans, Americans, Japanese, and Russians know how to explore space? If so, they are so wrong! It’s great to see that more and more nations are willing to dive deep into the unknown of…
Saturn Might Lose Its Iconic Rings
When we speak about the Solar System, one of the first things that pop into the mind are the iconic rings of Saturn. But unfortunately or not, the ‘gas giant’ could lose those rings in the future, as a new…
Our Planet Has a New ‘Moon’ That Will Be Orbiting Us for Over 1,000 Years
While ‘gas giants’ from our Solar System, such as Saturn and Jupiter, have dozens of natural satellites, our Earth hasn’t been that lucky. Our planet has a single Moon, or at least that’s what we thought. Another space rock is…
Jupiter’s Lightning Resembles the One of Earth, and NASA is Looking for Explanations
Here’s a disappointing fact about Jupiter: although the planet is so large that over 1,300 Earths would fit inside, astronomers are almost certain that there’s no ET living there. First of all, Jupiter isn’t called a gas giant for no…
The Most Powerful Solar Telescope Shows Amazing Details of the Sun
Although our Sun is only a medium-sized star, it’s still large enough to harbor 1.3 million planets the size of Earth inside it. It’s much larger even than Jupiter, the biggest planet in our Solar System. The Sun has a…
Astronomers Need YOUR HELP to Find More Asteroids
Many guys have been dreaming of becoming astronauts when they were little. If you’re one of them and you’ve missed the boat, there’s no use dispairing! That’s because astronomers are now looking for help in order to find more asteroids…
The 2023 JK Asteroid Approaches Earth – Will It Hit?
The Solar System’s biggest asteroids have given us the cold shoulder so far since Chicxulub got rid of all the dinosaurs, thankfully. The 2023 JK asteroid will pass by Earth this Sunday, and once again, we need to thank God…
How Probable is for a Killer Asteroid to Hit the Earth in the Next 1,000 Years? Scientists Provide the Answer
Here’s one extremely uncomfortable truth that we all need to learn to live with: there’s no such thing as 100% certainty that a giant asteroid won’t collide with our planet in the future. The good news, on the other hand,…
NASA’s Lunar Flashlight Mission Reaches the End of the Road
Lunar Flashlight is a mission that involves a tiny spacecraft called CubeSat orbiting the Moon. Its main purpose is to investigate and discover the presence of water ice deposits on our lunar neighbor. But that’s not all! It also aims…
NASA Finds Evidence of a Former Wild River on Mars
If you’re stuck in a situation when the Mars subject is brought into discussion, it’s a good idea to break the ice by mentioning the colonization hypothesis. Most people like the idea of terraforming the Red Planet someday, although nobody…
Saturn Has Many More Moons Than We Initially Thought
We could consider that astronomers have been beating around the bush when it comes to the exact number of Saturn’s moons. It’s very difficult to determine the exact number of natural satellites that a planet has. Even so, it doesn’t…
The Eta Aquariid Meteor Shower Produces Up to 160 Meteors per Hour
The Eta Aquariid Meteor Shower (aka The Aquariids), which is associated to Halley’s Comet, will be visible in the night sky until the end of the current month. We’re talking about a meteor shower that shows itself every year and…
The 2023 HV5 Asteroid Will Come as Close to Our Planet as the Moon
Our beloved Moon might look as if it’s just a bit above our heads, but a huge distance separates our planet from it. Back in 1969, during the first Apollo mission, astronauts had to travel 384,400 kilometers away from Earth…
Astronomers Witness the Earth’s Demise From the Far Future
No, nobody will catch the ‘eternal youth’ train judging by the current scientific progress of the world. Nobody and nothing in the Universe lives forever, and this even applies to our beloved Earth. In approximately 5 billion years, the Solar…
China Finds Evidence for the Existence of Liquid Water on Mars
If you’ve been thinking about twisting someone’s arm to admit that there is liquid water on Mars, well, maybe it would be a good idea. Of course, metaphorically speaking! China has now discovered evidence that water exists in liquid form…
Saturn’s Moon Helene Represents NASA’s New Picture of the Day
Saturn is a very interesting planet in our Solar System for several strong reasons. It’s made almost entirely of gases, it’s the second-biggest planet, and it has those iconic rings made of ice and rock, just to say the least.…
Probing the Interior of Our Sun Might Also Be Possible Through a Radical Mew Method
Astronomers wouldn’t be caught dead scavenging through the interior of the Sun. Our star might usually be our best friend, as it provides us heat, energy, oxygen, and food every day, but it won’t sit on the fence when it…