On July 14, 2015, the US probe New Horizons approached Pluto within 12,500 kilometers, capturing incredible views of the most famous of the dwarf planets. Demoted and reclassified as a dwarf planet since 2006, Pluto (2,372 km in diameter) and its moon Charon evolve more than six billion kilometers from Earth. The same year, NASA […]
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Pangolins are natural hosts for coronaviruses. However, there is no evidence that they played the intermediaries in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in humans. Recent studies have shown that bats may be the main reservoir for SARS-CoV-2, which is responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic. In contrast, in these winged mammals, the virus does not have receptors […]
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The famous auction company Christie’s has been offering for a few days to buy a lunar meteorite named NWA 12691, found two years ago in the Sahara Desert by an anonymous researcher. With its 13.5 kilograms on the scale, this extraterrestrial stone is “the fifth-largest piece of the Moon ever found on Earth,” read the […]
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Due to the incessant fires that have occurred in recent days, a dense layer of smoke has covered much of the country’s skies, which was evidenced by satellite images captured by NASA. The National Aeronautics Administration of Space (by its acronym in English NASA), showed an image that shows how the smoke covers the department […]
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Yesterday a team of astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS) returned to Earth in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, tumbling into a world very different from the one they left. Cosmonaut Oleg Skrypochka and astronauts Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan successfully landed near the city of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan at 05:16 UTC on Friday, […]
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The Artemisa project includes the construction of a camp for four astronauts. It would be the first step and then replicate it on Mars. NASA is developing a plan to create a base at the moon’s south pole. The idea is to be able to build a camp there so that astronauts can stay for […]
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US President Donald Trump has tested negative for the new coronavirus, according to a note published Saturday evening by White House doctor Dr. Sean Conley. “Last night, after a substantive discussion with the president about the COVID-19 test, he chose to be tested,” wrote Dr. Conley in the note. “Tonight I received confirmation of a […]
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This is the clearest photo ever taken of our neighboring planet. The NASA Curiosity rover captured with its powerful cameras the sharpest photograph ever taken of the planet Mars. It is an image composed of more than 1,000 photographs put together. The final product has more than one thousand eight hundred million pixels of resolution. […]
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Steve Wozniak claimed on Twitter to be the zero patient in the United States with his wife. The co-founder of the American company shared his fears on the web, referring to the bad cough of his wife, Janet Wozniak. According to him, his partner’s symptoms are linked to their last trip to China. “I went […]
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The first official results of the Insight mission, published by NASA, confirm that Mars is seismically active. But it’s a different seismicity from Earth. After just over 480 million kilometers traveled, the American probe Insight successfully landed on Monday, November 26, 2018 on the surface of Mars. The real heart of this mission was to […]
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