A long winter and record low temperatures could be felt in space, NASA warns. A space agency researcher says the sunspot activity is extremely low, which will record record temperatures in space. However, the Earth's climate will not be affected. "We are seeing a cooling trend," said Martin Mlynczak of the Langley Research Center, NASA. He added that at a high height of the Earth's surface, near the border with space, our atmosphere...
NASA has released a warning on an asteroid that is considered to be "potentially dangerous". The space object is called 2016 NF23 and it will pass near our planet on August 29, at a distance of 13.4 times the distance between the Moon to Earth. That's more than three million miles (4.8million km) or just 0.03377 astronomical units In astronomical terms, this means that it will pass near us, hence the cataloging of the asteroid as "potentially...
Researchers at Columbia University and Wisconsin-Madison University have conducted a study that shows how much the duration of a day has changed in time. Thus, 1.4 billion years ago, one day on Earth was not 24 hours, but only 18 hours. At that time, the Moon was much closer to Earth, and its gravity was stronger, influencing the planet's rotation and its axis. Since the moon is steadily moving away from the Earth at about 3.82 cm per year, this...
A meteorite crashed in Botswana. The impact took place on Saturday night. A small asteroid called 2018 LA (ZLAF9B2) crashed in Botswana on 06.02.2018, 16:53 UT local time. The object was about 2 meters in diameter and it was observed very late, just 7 hours before it entered the athmosphere. Researchers at Catalina Sky Survey, Arizona, realized that the meteorite will crash on Earth and they've managed to calculate the possible impact areas....
Researchers sent a message to a far exoplanet, hoping that they will finally have the proof of alien life. Last month, METI scientists (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence) sent a message in space. They hope that it will end the search quest for alien civilization. The message will reach the star named GJ 273 in about 12 years. The destination is a red dwarf star, also called star Luyten's Star, and astronomers believe that the signal could...
Researchers fear that Mars is not suitable to be colonized. Recent discoveries suggest that the Martian soil is much more toxic than previously believed and could make it impossible to develop life forms and colonize the planet. In the soil, there are large amounts of perchlorate, a very toxic substrate that is activated by sunlight. Everything is sterilized by this toxic compound, so life forms have no way to develop. The study was conducted by...
An experiment on the International Space Station had an unexpected result even for the researchers involved with the study. The team involved wanted to experiment with the effects of no gravity and no magnetic field in terrestrial organisms. So, they observed 10 large Planarian flatworms during their 5-week stay on ISS and 20 months evaluation back on earth. It started on January 10, 2015 and it was coordinated by experts at the Allen Discovery...
From time to time, NASA releases various stunning images from Space. This time, the agency decided to publish images of Pluto and its moon, Charon. In these images we can see a chaotic terrain, especially on the northern hemisphere. At the equator lies an 1,600 km long canyon that is twice as deep as the Grand Canyon located Arizona, US. According to NASA, this gigantic canyon can be compared with the Valles Marineris from Mars. The southern...
Do you feel safe? I mean, we live on a planet that's hit by a major asteroid every 100,000 years or so, which compared to the average human life span, it means we are pretty safe, right? Well, after watching the following video you will probably re-evaluate your thoughts on this matter. Scott Manley created a simulation that depicts the rate discovery of asteroids from 1970 to 2015 in 8K resolution. What you actually see in this simulation is...
In this article, I am going to challenge everything you think you know about you, the reality and about the Universe around us. Many of you could place the following lines in the category of conspiracy theory topics, but even so, these ideas are worth reading and think about, especially since they are backed by real science. If we take a look at the standard scientific model of the Universe, we learn that everything was created at one singular...
As you may already know, our planet has two types of movements: it rotates around its own axis and it orbits around the sun. The first type of movement that was discovered by the early scientists is the Earth's rotation around its axis. It leads to the the day-night switch, to the rise of the sun and the appearance of the moon on the night sky. A complete 360 degree rotation takes 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4091 seconds. It is believed that the...
This wednesday, the probe called Philae that emerged from the Rosetta spacecraft managed to land on the 4km-wide "ice mountain" known as 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet. The event was broadcasted live from the European Space Agency. The descent and the landing were smoothly, as expected. Here's a video about the mission: The Rosetta space mission, which includes the laboratory probe/robot Philae, aims to collect samples from the surface of the...
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