The lithosphere is the part of the Earth’s structure that lies between the atmosphere above and…
Solar system
On the morning of April 15, 2023, residents of Alaska (USA), located near the city of…
Previously, scientists named the most dangerous galactic event for our planet. Possible threats include a nearby…
Simulating an earthquake The epicenter is located at a depth of 80 km directly below the…
Pangea A grandiose event took place about 150 million – 220 million years ago, when the…
The strongest earthquake The strongest recorded earthquake occurred in Chile in 1960 – according to later…
September 21, 2023 marks nine years since MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) has been in…
Neptune, the most distant gas giant in the Solar System, has fourteen known moons. The first…
The solar wind is a stream of charged particles released from the Sun’s upper atmosphere and…
Scientists using the Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer (NGIMS) aboard NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft have found…
In September 2017, the Sun experienced a series of powerful flares, including one of the most…
Solar radiation storms are caused by strong magnetic eruptions that accelerate charged particles in the solar…
What is a Carrington Event? The Carrington event is an astronomical event that occurred on September…
The Perseverance Rover is a robotic vehicle designed to explore Mars launched in 2020. The rover…
of Jupiter as seen from the surface of its icy moon Europa. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) The…
What is a Carrington Event? The Carrington event is an astronomical event that occurred on September…
Supermoon surrounded by planets A supermoon is when the full Moon comes within 225,000 miles (362,000…
Accelerator engines Ten segments of the SLS booster engine destined for the Artemis II mission were…
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest gas giant. The most famous…
The interior of the Sun is divided into several spherical shells: the core, the radiation zone,…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission probe returned more than 2 ounces (60 grams) of material from a cosmic…
Great illusionist One of Mother Nature’s favorite tricks is refraction – bending light as it passes…
Officially, the equinox occurred on September 23, 2023, at 06:50 GMT. But this year it will…
Мars is one of the most accessible planets in the sky because it is close to…
Earth:Weight (m) 5.9726⋅1024 kgAverage density (ρ) 5.5153 g/cm³Average radius 6371.0 km Mars:Mass (m) 6.4171⋅1023 kg or…
What is Bennu? Bennu was discovered in 1999 using the LINEAR telescope in New Mexico. Although…
Despite its small size and distance from the Sun, Pluto has captured our imaginations and challenged…
In the past, we believed that our Solar System was fairly typical, categorizing all planets into…
The Moon’s south pole shifted 5 degrees from its original position billions of years ago, changing…
Moving in space The reason why the Earth continues its endless rotation, like the endless rotation…