“Sweeper” of the Solar System Jupiter is the most massive planet in the solar system and…
Astronomical Objects
Five asteroids, one the size of a house and two the size of an airplane, will…
What do we observe when approaching Jupiter? After traveling 248 million miles (400 million kilometers), you…
The theory goes that Jupiter pushes dangerous comets and asteroids out of their deadly orbits so…
A few salty water droplets that hit the rack of NASA’s Phoenix lander as it landed…
The average distance to the Moon is 384,403 km. Why “average”? Because the Moon revolves around…
The first photographs of the surface of Venus were taken by the Soviet Venera-9 spacecraft. “Venera-9”…
The planet’s crust is solid because it is composed of rocks and minerals that have solidified…
The thickness of the crust of Venus and the Earth differs significantly. Venus has a crust…
Planet’s crust is solid because it is composed of rocks and minerals that have solidified and…
Oddly enough, but no one knows for sure how stars are formed. We don’t know for…
Assuming that everything on the enlarged Earth scaled in the same way, things would be 25…
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a neighboring dwarf spiral galaxy in contact with the Milky…
Scientists have proposed using the so-called “black hole” as an inexhaustible source of energy – a…
The most drunken place in the Universe is the Gas Cloud in the constellation Aquila. It…
Mysteries of the Tunguska phenomenon Not a single piece was found. There is no crater. Fallen…
What do the rings of Jupiter look like? Jupiter’s ring system was the third to be…
Researchers have found that an invisible object in space is breaking apart a cluster of stars…
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune have rings. When Theia crashed into the Earth, the Earth also…
For more than three centuries, Saturn was thought to be a ringed planet. Only in 1977,…
So far, only 12 people have walked on the moon. Earth’s natural satellite is at a…
How does the earth rotate? The earth rotates the way it rotates. One revolution in 86,400…
Analyzing the hypothetical scenario of the Earth encountering a black hole, which attracts the attention of…
Neptune has 14 known moons. Satellites are divided into two main groups: regular and irregular satellites.…
With an average temperature of minus 234 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 145 degrees Celsius), Jupiter is cold…
Bombardment from space Most space objects penetrating the Earth’s atmosphere are quite modest in size. According…
The Great Census of Black Holes Scientists have tracked the population of black holes over billions…
We do not see black holes, but we see their influence. They are not empty. With…
The largest explosion in the universe was discovered as a result of the eruption of a…
Planck’s black hole The theoretical smallest is the Planck black hole – a hypothetical black hole…